Re: indexing of dynamic web pages

From: John Weise (jweise@UMICH.EDU)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 08:32:32 CDT

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    Date:         Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:32:32 -0400
    From: John Weise <mailto:jweise@UMICH.EDU>
    Subject:      Re: indexing of dynamic web pages
    To: mailto:IMAGELIB@listserv.arizona.edu
    

    <pre> Hi.

    OAIster is a project at the University of Michigan dealing directly with the issue of uncovering resources in dynamic/database driven sites.

    http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/

    Kat Hagedorn (mailto:khage@umich.edu) is the contact person.

    There is much information at the web site. Here is a just a snippet...

    "OAIster is a Mellon-funded project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services. Our goal is to create a wide-ranging collection of free, useful, previously difficult-to-access digital resources (what are digital resources?) that are easily searchable by anyone."

    John Weise Coordinator of Image Services Digital Library Production Service University of Michigan http://images.umdl.umich.edu/

    On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 03:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

    > There is one message totalling 79 lines in this issue.
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    > Topics of the day:
    >
    > 1. indexing of dynamic web pages
    >
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    >
    > Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:02:22 -0400
    > From: Amy Purcell <mailto:ahpurc01@ATHENA.LOUISVILLE.EDU>
    > Subject: Re: indexing of dynamic web pages
    >
    > At the University of Louisville, we have a database with descriptions of
    > special collections within our library system:
    > http://special.library.louisville.edu. To index these pages, we created
    > one
    > web page called display-title.asp that contains all the entries. (It is
    > not
    > linked.) We submitted that page to the search engines.
    >
    > Amy Purcell
    > Special Collections, Ekstrom Library
    > University of Louisville
    > mailto:apurcell@louisville.edu
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Sue Rosoff" <mailto:foto_zelda@yahoo.com>
    > To: <mailto:IMAGELIB@listserv.arizona.edu>
    > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:44 PM
    > Subject: Re: indexing of dynamic web pages
    >
    >
    >> You know - there is a company in Berkeley I think
    >> who was scanning beautiful books and manuscripts,
    >> making them totally searchable by having a hidden
    >> page behindthe image and they sell cd's... I just
    >> cannot come up with the name of the company...
    >> but if someone remembers the name you might want
    >> to have a look at what they did
    >>
    >> Sue Rosoff
    >> Digital Image Processor
    >> Marshallese Cultural Center
    >> and
    >> Kwajalein Missile Range
    >>
    >> --- Claire McGuire <mailto:cmcguire@HAVERFORD.EDU>
    >> wrote:
    >>> Hello, all.
    >>>
    >>> We're planning to scan and transcribe a large
    >>> group of 19th century letters. Because we're
    >>> taking the
    >>> time to transcribe these documents, it would be
    >>> nice if search engines could pick up the full
    >>> text
    >>> transcriptions. But because the online versions
    >>> of the transcripts will be database driven, I
    >>> don't think the
    >>> spiders will be able to pick them up. Is there
    >>> a way to get around this? Is it possible to
    >>> create static web
    >>> pages that are still database-driven? OAI may
    >>> help with some of the discovery challenges, but
    >>> I'm
    >>> looking for a way to reach less sophisticated
    >>> users.
    >>>
    >>> I'd be grateful for any suggestions or
    >>> resources that might help me figure out if
    >>> search engines can index
    >>> dynamic web pages.
    >>>
    >>> Thanks in advance for your help.
    >>>
    >>> Claire McGuire
    >>> Haverford College
    >>
    >>
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