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  <div class="header1">Table of Contents</div>
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  <div class="toc1"><a href="#Intro">About Sitemaps</a></div>
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    <div class="toc2"><a href="#Overview">Overview</a></div>
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    <div class="toc2"><a href="#Implementation">Metacat Implementation</a></div>
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  <div class="toc1"><a href="#SubmitSitemap">Submit Your Sitemap</a></div>
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     <div class="toc2"><a href="#GoogleRegister">Register With Google</a></div>
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     <div class="toc2"><a href="#GoogleReRegister">Re-Register With Google</a></div>
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  <a name="Intro"></a><div class="header1">About Sitemaps</div>
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  <a name="Overview"></a><div class="header2">Overview</div>
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  <p>Sitemaps are xml files that tell search engines which sites you would like to
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  be available in a web search.  This is especially useful in Metacat for making
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  individual metadata entries available via web searches.  This does not happen now
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  because of lack of a web accessible browse heirarchy of metadata.</p>
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  <p>The site map file contains metadata about the available sites on your server.  For
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  information on the sitemap protocol, please refer to
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  <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html"> the Google
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  page on using the sitemap protocol</a>.  The sitemap file must be available via the
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  web on your server.</p>
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  <p>Metacat generates the sitemap file automatically on a daily basis (more on this in
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  the next section).  You will need to manually register the sitemap file with Google in
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  order for it to take effect.  We discuss that in the
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  <a href="#SubmitSitemap">Submit Your Sitemap</a> section.</p>
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  <p>The scope of this discussion encompasses Google
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  web searches only.</p>
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  <a name="Implementation"></a><div class="header2">Metacat Implementation</div>
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  <p>Metacat automatically generates sitemap files for all public documents in
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  your catalog.  You can view the sitemap files at:
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  <div class="code">&lt;webapps_dir&gt;/sitemaps</div>
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  You should see one or more files in this directory that look like
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  <div class="code">metacat&lt;X&gt;.xml</div>
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  Metacat limits the number of entries to 25,000 (Google's limit is 50,000).  So for
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  every group of 25,000 public documents in Metacat, you will see additional sitemap
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  files where &lt;X&gt; increments for each file.</p>
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  <p>You should verify that your sitemap files are available to the web by browsing
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  <div class="code">&lt;your_web_context&gt;/sitemaps/metacat&lt;X&gt;.xml</div>
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  for instance
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  <div class="code">your.server.org/knb/sitemaps/metacat1.xml</div></p>
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  <a name="SubmitSitemap"></a><div class="header1">Submit Your Sitemap</div>
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  <a name="GoogleRegister"></a><div class="header2">Register With Google</div>
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  <p>You will need to register for a Google Webmaster Tools account in order to
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  register your sitemaps.  A good description of how to do this is on
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  <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34575&topic=8496">
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  the Google help site</a>.  Follow the instructions there to get your sitemaps registered.</p>
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  <p>One note: you should register the full url path to your sitemap files, including
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  the http:// (or https://) headers.</p>
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  <a name="GoogleReRegister"></a><div class="header2">Re-Register With Google</div>
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  <p>You will need to periodically revisit the Google Webmaster Tools utility to
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  refresh your sitemap registration as you add more publicly accessible data to
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  Metacat.</p>
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  <p>A future enhancement to Metacat will automatically refresh the sitemap
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  registration when necessary, although you will still need to do the initial
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  registration manually.</p>
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