Dear CRRA Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you, members of your staff, students and faculty at your institution to a symposium to be held November 9-10, 2011 at Duquesne University. Invited Catholic scholars and librarians will discuss the “state of the art” of Catholic scholarship, directions that scholarship is headed, and how libraries, archives, and member organizations support and nurture future Catholic scholars and scholarship.
In an effort to improve SEO (search engine optimization) I have done my best to implement sitemaps against the “Catholic Portal’s” VUFind implementation.
Sitemaps are XML files listing all the individual files/resources of a website. The intention and structure of these files is documented at Sitemaps.org. By exposing a site’s content in this way Internet robots/spiders can slurp up sitemap files’ URLs, go directly the resources without crawling, and index the content found there. In short, sitemaps make it easier for Internet indexers to do their job.
These are notes (to myself, mostly) on how to upgrade VUFind from a local “sandbox” version to a production version. But they are also documented here, just in case I win the lottery and start enjoying umbrella drinks on some Caribbean island.
I believe I have just finished upgrading the production version of VUFind — the software driving the “Catholic Portal” — to version RC3107 which is somewhere between version 1.1 and 1.2. This upgrade addresses at least a couple of usability issues, specifically:
With this version there are also quite a number of additional records in the underlying index — around 280,000. This is because the finding aids (EAD files) have been indexed more completely.
Next steps include:
Wish us luck.