[Dspace-general] Google search results bypass metadata records

[Christophe Dupriez]

Hi MacKenzie!

Would you support the idea that if the user "messes up" the end of the 
bitstream URL, he/she is redirected to the metadata display ?

My experience with sitemaps (in another application than DSpace) is very 
positive.
I do not remember if something like http://host/dspace/sitemap is 
returning a sitemap to Google ? does it deals with the limitation of 50 
(or so) thousands URL/ 10 megabytes per sitemap file?

Good night!

Christophe

MacKenzie Smith a écrit :
> Hi Pat,
>
> [snip]
>   
>> found it interesting (in the context of archival discussions about "exploding" 
>> the authority of the finding aid) that opening DSpace to Web 2.0 permits 
>> this broader, deracinated granular access.
>>     
> Can I add that this wasn't made possible by fancy Web 2.0 enhancements 
> at all...
> Google has always had the ability to walk a DSpace site right down to 
> the (unrestricted)
> bitstreams and index whatsoever they chose... item metadata, bitstreams, 
> or both.
>   
>> just that (since Google is DSpace-aware) the searcher be shown how to get the 
>> metadata if indeed it is wanted for the searcher's purposes.
>>     
> Yes that would be perfect, but Google says this would require something 
> in the bitstream
> that they crawl that would point the user back to the higher level 
> record... it's not
> something they're set up to do otherwise.
>
> As Christophe says, ideally we could deal with this through http headers 
> or something
> else that doesn't depend on the actual content being "context aware". 
> But no one's
> figured out a good way to do that, and Google isn't that "DSpace-aware"...
>
> MacKenzie
>
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