Re: OCLC and Michigan State at Impasse Over SkyRiver Cataloging, Resource Sharing Costs

From: Ross Singer <rossfsinger_at_nyob> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:29 -0600 To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu> wrote:

> OCLC has already done the equivalent of a 'site map' with Google, it got
> what we can see.

Actually, if you look at worldcat.org's current sitemap:

http://www.worldcat.org/sitemap/sitemap_index.xml

And then take the specific sitemaps:

http://www.worldcat.org/sitemap/sitemap1.xml
...
http://www.worldcat.org/sitemap/sitemap92.xml

And search for any of the specific things there (URL of page,
oclcnumber, etc.) see how many hits you get in Google.  My random
selection brought up nothing.

While the datestamp of these is Feb. 25th and Google's cache said it
grabbed the record Feb. 17th, I'm a little surprised I am finding
*zero* overlap in the current set of sitemaps (the URL structure has
also changed, which can't help the SEO) and Google index.

Also, our own, local sitemaps would help considerably if they pointed
at the corresponding Worldcat URL.

-Ross.