srunkows
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3 years ago Tom -
I put together a sample page for the LibGuides to get them into the search results.
I created a single page that lists the LibGuides, it currently only has the first 3 LibGuides just to get a feel for what it would look like. I think this will be easier to maintain than having individual pages for each LibGuide. I'm still trying to come up with a best layout/design for the page than just a running list of all the guides. I just wanted to get something down on a page to make sure it worked with the search, which btw, works very well. Have a look at: https://lib-review-cshl-core.pantheonsite.io/library/resources/libguides/
And then when you want to announce a new LibGuide, you could create a Library News post and then link to the post from the Library homepage in a callout box. Something like this: https://lib-review-cshl-core.pantheonsite.io/library_news/new-libguide-research-data-management-at-cshl/
Let me know your thoughts on this concept. Thanks!
tomadams
Tom: Topics of LibGuides appearing in Search
With regards to the search, how can we ensure that the topics in our Libguides appear to Library search?
Sue:
Libguides in the search results: The consultants explained last year (July 2019), that the website search can not return results from external websites, such as https://cshl.libguides.com/ without the aid of a 3rd party tool such as Ex Libris Primo or ProQuest Summon. The website search is only a faceted search and can only index pages and posts that physically reside on www.cshl.edu. The faceted search does not have the ability to do a federated search and index content on other websites.
Tom:
My other questions was how to make topics in our LibGuide available for search within the consolidated website. To accomplish that we might need to have a post for each of our LibGuides, with a title, summary and link to the LibGuide entry itself. With a “LibGuide” tag on each post. (I realize the website will not be able to index another website.) Is that the best way of doing it?
Sue:
How many LibGuides are there? Making a separate page for each just to get them indexed is a possibility but I'm concerned with the amount of pages. Also, each page will need to have a short summary so that a description will come up in the search results. Then there's the maintenance of those pages if anything ever changes on the LibGuides website you will have to remember to check the corresponding page on the website so they don't get out of synch.
The only other way would be to have a single page that lists all the LibGuides each with a summary and then a link out to the LibGuides website. I can try setting up a page with a couple of LibGuides as a test to see how the search returns results for the them.
Tom:
There are currently 41 guides.
I was thinking there would be a posting for each LibGuide, almost like an announcement for each individual guide, so that when a new guide is developed, there would be an announcement on the integrated library website (with a tag of LibGuide) that would summaries the content of the guide with a link to it. That would also be picked up by search.
There might also be a page that would list all of those LibGuide tagged announcements.
Sue:
Can you open a github issue for this? I need to think about this for a day to come up with the best solution. I don't want it to get buried in my inbox and forget about it.
Tom:
Our email thoughts added to github.