Get Discovered: Sitemaps, OAI and more Overview
Use Cases for Discovery
Site map
SEO
OAI PMH Get Discovered? Nah. Get Discovered!
This is what I’m talking about!
Discovery is all about being able to find our digital assets for RE-USE Metrics for Discoverability Mission Statements from the Wild
University of Western Sydney: Research Direct Mission Statements from the Wild
University of Prince Edward Island: Island Scholar How do I Start?
Understand the metrics and what matters the most
Standard modules in the latest version of Islandora will help
Any site administrator can enable and configure them Sitemap
XML Site map “ tells the search engine about the pages in a site, their relative importance to each other, and how often they are updated. [...] This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site” (Wikipedia, 2014).
Islandora XML Sitemaps creates these maps for your repository.
Add URLs for Islandora objects to the XML sitemap module's database as custom links. When the XML sitemap module creates its sitemap it will include these custom links.
http://www.islandora.ca/content/updates-islandora-7x-13-release https://github.com/Islandora/islandora_xmlsitemap Search Engine Optimization
SEO “is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid ("organic") search results. [...]
SEO may target different kinds of search, including [...] academic search.” (Wikipedia, 2014).
An example of an academic search is Google Scholar. ● Islandora Google Scholar Configuration (URL/admin/islandora/solution_pack_config/scholar)
o tags are added to a citation object's page to be crawled by the all knowing GoogleBot
o Tags are also recognized by Zotero
● OAI- PMH
● OAI-PMH is a set of protocols to expose structured metadata to harvesters ● Islandora is OAI-PMH compliant and has been approved when submitted to WorldCat (ruebot++)
● Written such that each part of the handler can be overwritten for custom implementations
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/ISLANDORA713/Islandora+OAI
https://github.com/islandora/islandora_oai OAI- PMH
Access the configuration interface via Islandora> Islandora Utility Modules> Islandora OAI (i.e. URL/admin/islandora/tools/islandora-oai)
Configure path to the repository (i.e. http://sandbox.discoverygarden.ca/oai2)
Define how collections or sets can be identified by configuring the OAI Request Handler (i.e. URL/admin/islandora/tools/islandora-oai/handler)
Ensure access restrictions are respected during harvest (i.e. URL/admin/islandora/tools/xacml)
Test resumption tokens for large ingests OAI- PMH
● Identify o http://sandbox.discoverygarden.ca/oai2?verb=Identify ● ListMetadataFormats o http://sandbox.discoverygarden.ca/oai2?verb=ListMetadataFormats ● ListSets (list all the Islandora Collections that are harvestable) o http://sandbox.discoverygarden.ca/oai2?verb=ListSets ● ListRecords o http://sandbox.discoverygarden.ca/oai2? verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc ● ListRecords from a Set o http://sandbox.discoverygarden.ca/oai2? verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=ir_citationCollection OAI - PMH Thank you!