Kenning Arlitsch has done work in this area as well, focused on
institutional repositories. He has an article coming out in Library Hi Tech
about it next month:

<http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17014492&show=abstract
>

and will be doing a free OCLC Research TAI CHI webinar on March 16 at 2pm
EST, watch for the announcement via Twitter, email, and here: <
http://www.oclc.org/research/events/taichi.htm>.
Roy

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Stern, Randall <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Here is also a  link to a presentation that Bobbi Fox did at a Digital
> Library Federation conference back in 2008, which details some of Harvard
> Library's efforts in this area:
> http://www.diglib.org/forums/fall2008/presentations/Fox.pdf
>
>
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>
>
> Date:    Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:26:33 +0000
>
> From:    =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eoghan_=D3_Carrag=E1in?= <
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>
> Subject: Re: Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!
>
>
>
> Here is one from 2008 code4lib journal:
>
> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/43
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>
>
> Eoghan
>
>
>
> On 24 February 2012 16:49, Cynthia Ng <[log in to unmask]<mailto:
> [log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> > I would definitely like to see something like this written up as a
>
> > journal article. "How to expose your collection to search engines"
>
> >
>
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Stern, Randall
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> > <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> > > In order to make more open access data available on the web, this is
>
> > what Harvard does for most of our silo catalogs of images, finding aids,
>
> > geospatial data sets, and page turned digital objects (full text) -
> creates
>
> > easily crawlable, meta-tagged index pages for each item.
>
> > >
>
> > > The result is that for our finding aids (lots of text data exposed) we
>
> > see about 3-4X as many referrals from search engines as we do searches in
>
> > our native interface, and for images (brief metadata exposed) about a 30%
>
> > bump for search engine referrals.
>
> > >
>
> > >
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> > > -----------------------------------
>
> > > Date:    Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:54:33 +0000
>
> > > From:    Dave Caroline <[log in to unmask]<mailto:
> [log in to unmask]>>
>
> > > Subject: Re: Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!
>
> > >
>
> > > To avoid sessions and other silliness just expose a search engine
>
> > > friendly format without sessions.
>
> > >
>
> > > As I dont have local visitors google traffic matters.
>
> > >
>
> > > 86.62% Search Traffic
>
> > >  2.41% Referral Traffic
>
> > > 10.98% Direct Traffic
>
> > >
>
> > > For my tiny corner on the web
>
> > >
>
> > > Dave Caroline
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> >
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