Section 5.6.1 Indexing & Search Tools
The variation in information retrieval behaviour of
categories of end-users should be recognised and the organisation of Content
and the access to that Content should accommodate this behaviour.
To facilitate ready access to information resources and
services, adequate indexing and search tools (eg. Campus Search Engine) and
centrally maintained indexes should be provided for end-users.
Staff responsible for administration of MurdochNet shall be
responsible for:
(1) providing an appropriate Campus Search Engine that is
configured to index selected registered Servers
(2) ensuring that selected Content hosted on designated Servers is
appropriately and reliably indexed by the Campus Search Engine robot
(3) providing and maintaining indexes that facilitate the location
of information and support navigation of MurdochNet.
Content Providers should be aware that in configuration of
the Campus Search Engine the gathering process does not index directories on
registered Servers where the directory name begins with the ~ character, or the
directory contains a file named norobots.txt (or its equivalent).
Content Providers should be advised to maintain the
appropriate META tags within HTML documents (ie. Keywords and Description) that
many Search Engines use. This practice should improve the granularity of search
results from the Campus Search Engine and other Search Engines that index
Murdoch Web sites. The use of additional META tags, (eg. DC.Creator) should
facilitate the use of advanced search features.
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