First of all, I'm going to say I know little in this area. I've done some
preliminary research about search indexing (Google's) and investigated a
few OPAC robot.txt files. Now to my questions:
- Can someone explain to me or point me to research as to why local
library catalog records do not show up in Google, Bing, or Yahoo! search
results?
- Is there a general prohibition by libraries for search engines to
crawl their public records?
- Do the search engines not index these records actively?
- Is it a matter of SEO/promoted results?
- Is it because some systems don't mint URLs for each record?
I haven't seen a lot of discussion about this recently and I know Jason
Ranallo has done a lot of work in this area and gave a great talk at
code4lib Seattle on microdata/Schema.org, so I figured this could be part
of that continuing conversation.
I look forward to being educated by you all,
Tod
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Tod Robbins
iSchool GSA Crew
MLIS Candidate 2012
University of Washington
Received on Thu Feb 23 2012 - 12:44:15 EST