Hi- I'm wondering if bitstreams with anonymous read access that are part of locked down items are at risk of getting indexed and made available through search engines. Do search engines stop at locked down item pages or is there another way for them to index and access readable bitstreams?
We have a number of thesis collections with some publicly available items and some items locked down to our campus IP range. Over the weekend I looked at implementing Peter Dietz's code for embedding the Google Docs viewer. https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Document+Preview+with+Google+Docs+viewer What I noticed was that if I was on campus and the bitstream in question was locked down by IP the viewer could not access the PDF, presumably because the IP trying to access the doc is from Google. The viewer will work when I am on campus and the item is locked down but the bitstream is open. So, if I leave items as restricted but open up their bitstreams so that they will work with the embedded viewer is there any risk that they will get crawled and made available in Google results? I would love to implement the viewer to make our users' lives easier, but it doesn't make sense if it doesn't work for huge chunks of our collection or if enabling it exposes private data. Thanks! Spencer -- Spencer Lamm Digital Initiatives Librarian Swarthmore College Library [email protected] 610-328-8541
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf
_______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
