Re: Google Scholar, was How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

[Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>]

On 05/10/11 17:28, John Levine wrote:
>> In the case of Google Scholar, I found the guidelines to be a bit
>> intimidating:
>>
>> http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html
>>
>> but not something that would be hard for the RFC publisher to set up in
>> a few hours based on the PDF form of the RFCs and the rfc-index.xml file.
> Actually, now that I look at their guidelines, I'm sort of surprised
> that they're not in Scholar.  They say they'll index HTML versions of
> documents so long as they have meta tags that have the title, author,
> and other bibliographic info and it has references it can crawl to do
> cross links to other documents. The HTML versions in
> tools.ietf.org/html look to me like they have the right tags.  The
> problem may be that the meta tags are missing some minor item, that it
> can't recognize the references sections, which should be a matter of
> tweaking the HTML a little bit, or maybe that there isn't a TOC page
> that lets it recognize all the RFCs as a collection.
>
> Whatever it is, it doesn't look like it'd be hard for someone with
> sufficient spare time to fix.
For some reason, scholar has indexed 151 docs from tools.ietf.org and 
then stopped.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=site%3Atools.ietf.org&btnG=Search&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=&as_vis=0 
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=site%3Atools.ietf.org&btnG=Search&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=&as_vis=0>

> R's,
> John
>