[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen access via Google?

[Justin Hopkins]

I think the takeaway here is that EVERGREEN IS AWESOME.

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Justin at MOBIUS

On 4/9/15 9:44 AM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
> Welcome to the list Marc!
>
>>
>> I don't know whether an Evergreen site has yet done this, but FWIW, 
>> another approach is to sign up for OCLC's WorldCat Local (to be 
>> rebranded WorldCat Discovery) service.  Among the (apparently 
>> less-known) features included is web-scale discovery.  OCLC makes its 
>> records discoverable via Google and other search services. These in 
>> turn -- via WCL -- are linked in real-time to availability 
>> information in subscribers' ILSes. 
>
> That might be true, but I'm perplexed as to why a library would pay 
> for this discoverability through WorldCat Local when they already get 
> it out of the box with Evergreen?
>
> Of course, there might be other reasons for signing up for WorldCat 
> Local, but I think the work Dan has done has put Evergreen, Koha, and 
> VuFind ahead of the pack in this area.
>
> Kathy
>
> On 04/09/2015 09:15 AM, Marc Truitt wrote:
>> On 2015-04-09 1005, Ben Shum wrote:
>>>> That all said, I suppose one potential "danger" of having bots freely
>>>> scan over your site is that if they get too busy with indexing your
>>>> site's contents, they can overwhelm and cause interruptions in your
>>>> ability to use Evergreen.  This happened to us at least once before,
>>>> where some indexer in China scanned our whole catalog and tried to
>>>> index every page causing us to run out of system resources trying to
>>>> serve up all the content it was requesting.
>>
>> Disclaimer:  I'm a lurker who is very interested in and hopeful for 
>> Evergreen's success.  Our site currently uses a proprietary ILS.
>>
>> I don't know whether an Evergreen site has yet done this, but FWIW, 
>> another approach is to sign up for OCLC's WorldCat Local (to be 
>> rebranded WorldCat Discovery) service.  Among the (apparently 
>> less-known) features included is web-scale discovery.  OCLC makes its 
>> records discoverable via Google and other search services. These in 
>> turn -- via WCL -- are linked in real-time to availability 
>> information in subscribers' ILSes.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> - mt
>>
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