Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace and Google Scholar

Tue, 05 Nov 2013 07:51:29 -0800

Hi Rodrigo,

DuraSpace has been in contact with the Google Scholar team frequently over the past few years with regards to DSpace and Google Scholar. We have been providing feedback/requests back to DSpace developers directly from the Google Scholar team. 

So, we've been in ongoing discussions with Google Scholar around making DSpace more easily indexed/searched by Google Scholar.  Nearly every new version of DSpace includes some search engine improvements (more are coming in the upcoming 4.0).  Google Scholar has changed its own "best practices" over time (as they improve their system), and as such DSpace has been changing its functionality to better support these new  best practices.

Because of that, it is very important to stay up-to-date with DSpace in order to get all of these Google Scholar enhancements.  This is another difference between DSpace and EPrints & bepress.  Although it's not always the case, EPrints and bepress often are "hosted" solutions -- meaning that the hosting provider keeps the software up-to-date on your behalf.  Therefore, as EPrints and bepress make GS improvements, you'd get them "automatically" in your hosted system.  There are also some DSpace hosting options (e.g. DSpaceDirect via DuraSpace, Open Repository via BioMed Central, others), but most institutions run DSpace on their own servers. This means that, in order to see all the GS improvements in DSpace, you need to be sure you are upgrading the software at a relatively regular pace (or hiring someone to do it on your behalf)

Currently, DSpace supports embedded Google Scholar metadata (in their recommended Highwire Press format), it's also editable so that you can enhance the metadata even more based on any local metadata fields you may add. As Richard mentioned, another difference here is that DSpace is built to store *any* content you want to put into it (it need not even be "scholarly" in nature), which is why we have configurable Google Scholar metadata to support multiple use cases.  Finally, DSpace also provides "sitemaps" which let search engines (in general) more easily locate content in DSpace.  

Google Scholar Metadata tags: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Google+Scholar+Metadata+Mappings
SiteMaps / SEO: https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=34642415

I hope this gives you a good overview of how DSpace attempts to stay up to date with Google Scholar and other search engine best practices.

Feel free to let us know if you have other questions,

- Tim
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Tim Donohue
Technical Lead for DSpace & DSpaceDirect
DuraSpace.org | DSpace.org | DSpaceDirect.org


On 11/4/2013 4:23 PM, Calloni, Rodrigo wrote:

Hello


We are using DSpace 1.8 XMLUI.

 

I am in contact with someone at Google Scholar who mentioned that EPrints and BEPRess’s Digital Commons are better integrated with Scholar than DSpace.

 

I wonder if you are aware of this and what these 2 other IR solutions are doing to bet better acceptable platforms for Scholar. Is it the UI?

 

Thanks in advance

Rodrigo



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