Bernadette,
This issue was the topic of a paper from the University of Bath last year - see
http://opus.bath.ac.uk/34033/.
One outcome from this was a conversation with EPrints to make sure that
metadata was not affected by a coversheet and therefore shouldn't affect Google
crawling. So it
Code4libBC is happening in Vancouver, BC today and tomorrow. There's
about 75 people registered for the two days. We're not livestreaming but
follow #c4lbc on Twitter.
Here's what we're up to: http://wiki.code4lib.org/BC
For the rest of the organizing committee,
Tara