It's probably not safe to say that "all search is local" but there is
most certainly a strong local component considered for every search.
For me, every hit on the first page of Google's results for a search for
"ice cream parlor" is related to Chicago, which is where I executed the
search. A search for a book (I chose a current bestseller as a test),
however, does not return a local hit in the first two pages. That's not
to say it can't happen. It might simply (hah! 'simple') be that Google
does not know enough about local inventory (books available from a local
library or in stock at a local bookstore) to offer that type of
assistance/precision. While this may seem like a theory only,
Zepheira's libhub initiative has been trying to make this a reality by
publishing individual libraries' structured data so that Google can make
sense of it. And, at this point, if anyone from Libhub is on this list,
I'll let you take it from here...
Yours,
Kevin
On 03/29/2016 08:52 AM, Ruth Tillman wrote:
An off-the-cuff response: I've heard it suggested in talks about Bibframe
that just as Google tailors your results based on location (i.e. if I put
in "pizza," I'll get pizza places in South Bend, as well as pizza recipes
and whatnot), they'd tailor your library results based on location. So if I
were in downtown DC, and Googled a book, I would see the DCPL holdings but
not Indiana, and vice-versa.
There are maybe 5 or 10 assumptions happening there that other people can
spell out better, but it would be a reasonable solution for deduping
assuming the metadata pretty much matches.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Harper, Cynthia <char...@vts.edu> wrote:
Forgive me if I'm confusing schema.org and Bibframe, but I wonder how
Google is going to dedupe all the sources of a given document/material when
many libraries have their holdings in bibframe? These sample searches made
me wonder about that again. has this been discussed?
Cindy Harper
char...@vts.edu
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Structured Data Markup on library web sites
I worked on the addition of schema.org data to the Bryn Mawr Classical
Reviews. Although I advised doing a "before and after" test to see how
it affected retrieval, I lost touch with the folks before that could
happen. However, their reviews do show up fairly high in Google, around
the 3-5th place on page one. Try these searches:
how to read a latin poem
/From Listeners to Viewers:/
/Butrint 4: The Archaeology and Histories of an Ionian Town
kc
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On 3/22/16 5:44 PM, Jennifer DeJonghe wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for examples of library web sites or university web sites
that are using Structured Data / schema.org to mark up books, locations,
events, etc, on their public web sites or blogs. I'm NOT really looking for
huge linked data projects where large record sets are marked up, but more
simple SEO practices for displaying rich snippets in search engine results.
If you have examples of library or university websites doing this,
please send me a link!
Thank you,
Jennifer
Jennifer DeJonghe
Librarian and Professor
Library and Information Services
Metropolitan State University
St. Paul, MN
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