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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