Dawson, Alan and Hamilton, Val Optimising metadata to make high-value content more accessible to Google users. Journal of Documentation, 2006, vol. 62, n. 3, pp. 307-327. [Journal article (Paginated)]
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This paper shows how information in digital collections that have been catalogued using high-quality metadata can be retrieved more easily by users of search engines such as Google.The research and proposals described arose from an investigation into the observed phenomenon that pages from the Glasgow Digital Library (gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk) were regularly appearing near the top of Google search results shortly after publication, without any deliberate effort to achieve this. The reasons for this phenomenon are now well understood and are described in the second part of the paper. The first part provides context with a review of the impact of Google and a summary of recent initiatives by commercial publishers to make their content more visible to search engines.
Item type: | Journal article (Paginated) |
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Keywords: | digital libraries, metadata, search engine optimization |
Subjects: | L. Information technology and library technology > LS. Search engines. I. Information treatment for information services > IE. Data and metadata structures. |
Depositing user: | Emma McCulloch |
Date deposited: | 27 Aug 2009 |
Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:15 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/13440 |
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