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

[Conal Tuohy]

>From the horse's mouth:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/retiring-support-for-oai-pmh-in.html



On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:55 +1200, Leonie Hayes wrote:
> Hi all
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> Would anyone like to comment from a DSpace perspective, (see below)
> regarding current practices. There seems to be a lot of conflicting
> information around.
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> We use the standard site map and exclude the Browse screens and
> Suggest a title, do most other sites do the same?
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> Leonie Hayes
> Research Repository Librarian
> http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/contacts/?firstname=&lastname=hayes
> http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz  
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> 1883-2008: Celebrating 125 Years 
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Digitool Discussion List [mailto:DIGITOOL-L at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Yaniv Levi
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 12:10 PM
> To: DIGITOOL-L at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Google harvesting from DigiTool
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> Dear Members,
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> A few months ago there was some discussion regarding Google harvesting
> information from DigiTool – so here is a short update. 
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> 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).
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> 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. 
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> You can find some results of our tests if you search “DigiTool
> Picasso” in Google.
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> Best Regards,
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> Yaniv  
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Conal Tuohy
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