[Building Sakai] Google scholar. Missing "Import into Sakai"

Tue May 22 22:00:51 PDT 2012

I'm afraid I have some bad news… Matthew contacted Google and learned that Google has removed support for Sakai integration in the "new modern look" of Google Scholar with no advance notice, and they have no plans to bring it back. The reason given was low usage.

For now, users can manually go back to the old look by clicking on the "Revert to old venerable look" in the bottom left hand corner of the Google Scholar search screen, then close the Google Scholar window and reopen it by clicking again on the "Search Google Scholar" button. Another option would be to modify the Citations Helper code to add the parameter sciui=2 to the http://scholar.google.com/schhp URL to force the old look.

However, neither of these is a long term solution, as the old Google Scholar look will presumably be going away at some point in the near future.

The IU and UM teams will continue to explore other options, and we'd appreciate any suggestions from the community on this issue.

Jon

From: "jimeng at umich.edu<mailto:jimeng at umich.edu>" <jimeng at umich.edu<mailto:jimeng at umich.edu>>
Date: Monday, May 21, 2012 11:24 AM
To: Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com<mailto:matthew at longsight.com>>, Jon Dunn <jwd at indiana.edu<mailto:jwd at indiana.edu>>
Cc: "adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk<mailto:adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk>" <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk<mailto:adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk>>, Sakai Developers <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, "sakaibrary at umich.edu<mailto:sakaibrary at umich.edu>" <sakaibrary at umich.edu<mailto:sakaibrary at umich.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Google scholar. Missing "Import into Sakai"

Barring the possibility that the server was down temporarily at some other time since 6:44 p.m. PDT Monday, May 15 and that google happened to crawl the file at that time, it seems like everything is working as expected from the sakai end of things, so I'd guess the next step is to contact google.  Jon Dunn is the sakai liaison to google, so that call would be his.

Jim

On May 21, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Matthew Jones wrote:

There is this file that google checks for

http://sakaiproject.org/sakaibrary/registry.txt

Based on prior research, Google would access this file 3 and 5 p.m. Eastern time each Monday of the month.

If it has a single failure finding this file, it would erase it's previous version and we'd be out of luck for a week (yea great eh?). Google was not willing to change this access process AFIAK. (To either retain the old data on failure or schedule a recheck) I had setup a process at Michigan that would verify every 5 minutes if this file existed, though since I've left I don't know if this system is still running.

It looks like the last time Google tried to get it was last week as expected? at around 5PM?

access_log-20120520:66.249.73.150 - - [14/May/2012:18:44:36 +0000] "GET /sakaibrary/registry.txt HTTP/1.1" 301 325 "-" "Googlebot-IA/2.1"
access_log-20120520:72.21.88.42 - - [14/May/2012:18:44:39 +0000] "GET /sakaibrary/registry.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 2639 "-" "Googlebot-IA/2.1"

It should also try to get it today at ~5PM EDT.

Not sure why it wouldn't be working otherwise?

-Matthew

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk<mailto:adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
Title says it all. "Import into sakai" has vanished from Google Scholar again.

I would report it but I haven't a clue who to contact. Is there a page that describes what to do?

adam
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