The American Institute of Physics did a bunch of work to make a
spiderable cache of their catalog even though the underlying OPAC will
fall down if a bot looks at it funny. If you're a bot, you get the
static page; if you're not, you get bounced over to the OPAC.
You can see their static cache of OPAC pages here:
http://www.aip.org/history/catalog/
I'm not sure how their Google ranking is but it seems like a pretty
reasonable approach to me. I don't think we will ever be able to make
search result pages spiderable but full bibliographic pages definitely
should be, either by this method or something similar.
>>> Tim Spalding <tim_at_LIBRARYTHING.COM> 4/23/2007 11:04 AM >>>
Does anyone know of examples of a fully-spiderable OPAC?
It's my contention that libraries would do well in Google and even
Google Local if they were spiderable. I've seen the Lamson Library
catalog do very well*tops in Google, even without mentioning Plymouth
State, but it gets a LOT of push from its association with WpOPAC.
But I need some examples. Anyone?
Tim
Received on Mon Apr 23 2007 - 12:28:07 EDT