> Very interesting, thanks for that pointer. It reads as though they're
> just interested in the identifier, though.
Yeah, that was my impression - I wondered if they would ignore the other metadata present in the record.
At the moment we publish our item-level records to google sitemaps as flat text files listing the URLs of the records. I wondered if it was worthwhile creating a more structured sitemaps file, with DC metadata for each record. The sitemaps protocol can be extended (http://sitemaps.org/protocol.html#extending) but is there any point in doing that if search engines ignore the extra information?
Jim
Jim O'Donnell (Dr.)
Senior Web Developer
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich
London SE10 9NF
Tel: 020 8312 6517
http://www.nmm.ac.uk
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