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 <meta> tags are added to a citation object's page to be crawled by the all knowing GoogleBot

o Tags are also recognized by Zotero

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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

● Identifyo http://sandbox.discoverygarden.ca/oai2?verb=Identify

● ListMetadataFormatso http://sandbox.discoverygarden.ca/oai2?verb=ListMetadataFormats

● ListSets (list all the Islandora Collections that are harvestable)o http://sandbox.discoverygarden.ca/oai2?verb=ListSets

● ListRecordso 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!