Re: Robots.txt and Sitemap files

Hi Alasdair,

I would say good practices about sitemaps and robots.txt would fall into
the subject for our next community call.

Regards,

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:05 AM Gray, Alasdair J G <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi All
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> Dan thanks for the prompt on this and I would also encourage the use of
> sitemaps to allow us to know what pages are available on your site.
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> I have added a field to the list of live deploys that lists the sitemap as
> well, although this is currently not shown on the website it is useful for
> us to have a list of these. You can find details in the following PR
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> https://github.com/BioSchemas/bioschemas.github.io/pull/340
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> Best regards
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> Alasdair
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> Just a quick note to encourage discussion of robots.txt
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard> and sitemap
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps> files as something that
> bioschemas implementers should think about. There are a few cases of
> bioschemas-publishing sites excluding most crawlers via a very restrictive
> robots.txt file. Similarly, sitemap files can make large and complex sites
> easier for crawlers (whether simple code or large/commercial) to collect
> data from efficiently, including URL discovery. Since the hope has always
> been that bioschemas will encourage innovative uses of marked up data, it
> seems worth making sure that sites aren't accidentally excluding
> bioschema-crawlers...
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> cheers,
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> Dan
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