[Dspace-general] FW: Google harvesting using OAI-PMH

[Leonie Hayes]

Hi all
 
Would anyone like to comment from a DSpace perspective, (see below)
regarding current practices. There seems to be a lot of conflicting
information around.
 
We use the standard site map and exclude the Browse screens and Suggest
a title, do most other sites do the same?
 
Leonie Hayes
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Subject: Google harvesting from DigiTool



Dear Members,

 

A few months ago there was some discussion regarding Google harvesting
information from DigiTool - so here is a short update. 

 

The official Google statement stated that Google supports harvesting
using OAI-PMH and as DigiTool can serve as an OAI-PMH provider we
assumed that harvesting by Google is possible. After a few attempts, and
a few discussions with Google (we should thank CJH for doing the effort)
we got a clear message that OAI-PMH harvesting is no longer supported
and customers should use the standard map site required by Google
(personally, I'm not sure if OAI-PMH was ever supported).

 

As this is the situation, we are working on an enhancement that will
allow Google to harvest DigiTool using a site map as required by Google.
We have done a few internal testing in the last few weeks and the
results are satisfactory. We plan to implement this enhancement at a few
sites that have requested just after SP20 and the enhancement will be
included in SP21. 

 

You can find some results of our tests if you search "DigiTool Picasso"
in Google.

 

Best Regards,

 

Yaniv  

 

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