[rclis] Re: yahoo

[Thomas Krichel]

  Dempsey,Lorcan writes

> Interested in the various 'exposures' to Yahoo and Google recently,
> I was looking at Yahoo today. A search on "lorcan dempsey" gives you
> a dois link quite early on, yet this does not figure in the top
> bundle of screenfuls for Google.
>
> For example
> http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/DoIS/data/Articles/doidlibmay:2000:v:6:i:9:p:5.html
> is number 11 in the Yahoo result. 
> 
> Initially I thought that this might be because dois stuff is in
> oaister and this is being sucked in by Yahoo. However, a check
> reveals that OAISTER does not seem to be indexing DoIS records. Is
> there some other reason that DoIS stuff (in this case) is in here,
> or is it happenstance falling out of the diff ways Yahoo and Google
> do things?

   DoIS is not in OAIster, because it has no OAI interface. However
   your record got there, it was not through OAI, we don't have 
   the staff to maintain an OAI gateway at this time. 

> Incidentally, how decide what gets into DoIS? Is it just the
> directions taken by voluntary effort? I do have a relatively
> complete list of publications that are accessible on the web at
> http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/publications.htm and was
> curious about the particular subset that got into DoIS.

  Currently we use a dataset provided by Julio Alonso Alevaro. I am
  working on integrating DBLP and find the full text of freely
  accessible papers mentioned in DBLP using special searches. 
  This is known as  the konz project. It finds a copy of the
  full-text file, usually from a researchers homepage, for
  a bibliographic citation.

> All the best. If you ever happen to be travelling through Ohio ;-)
> come and see us.

  Sure. I would have applied for a research fellowship, but
  I am worried about my precarious visa status would be further
  complicated by such a move. 

  In any case let me know if you come to NYC, I would be
  happy to have you as my guest.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                      mailto:krichel at openlib.org
                                 http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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