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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=black face="Century Gothic"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";color:black;font-weight:
normal'>Hi - Some of our ArchivalWare customers are upset that Google is
pulling the plug on OAI-PMH in Sitemaps. Does anyone have any more knowledge
about this issue? <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=black face="Century Gothic"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";color:black;font-weight:
normal'>John Yokley<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 color=black face="Century Gothic"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";color:black'>Retiring
support for OAI-PMH in Sitemaps </span></font></b></strong><b><font size=4
color=black face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
"Century Gothic";color:black;font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black face="Century Gothic"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";color:black'>Wednesday,
April 23, 2008 at 10<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName>20 AM By John
Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google Zürich<br>
<br>
When we originally launched Sitemaps, we included support for the Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting ( </span></font><u><font size=2
color=red face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";
color:red'><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html"
title="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html">http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html</a></span></font></u><font
size=2 color=black face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";color:black'> ) (OAI-PMH) 2.0 protocol, an
interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting. In the meantime,
however, we've found that the information we gain from our support of OAI-PMH
is disproportional to the amount of resources required to support it. Fewer
than 200 sites are using OAI-PMH for Google Sitemaps at the moment. <br>
<br>
In order to move forward with even better coverage of your websites, we have
decided to support only the standard XML Sitemap format by May 2008. We are in
the process of notifying sites using OAI-PMH to alert them of the change. <br>
<br>
If you have been using OAI-PMH as a Google Sitemap feed, we would love to see
you adopt the industry standard XML Sitemap ( </span></font><u><font size=2
color=red face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";
color:red'><a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/" title="http://www.sitemaps.org/">http://www.sitemaps.org/</a></span></font></u><font
size=2 color=black face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";color:black'> ) format. This format is supported
by all of the major search engines and helps to make sure that everyone is able
to find your new and updated content as soon as you make it available. <br>
<br>
If you have any questions regarding the move to XML Sitemap files, feel free to
post in our Google discussion group for Sitemaps ( </span></font><u><font
size=2 color=red face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";color:red'><a
href="http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Sitemap/topics"
title="http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Sitemap/topics">http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Sitemap/topics</a></span></font></u><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>John Yokley</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
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P | T | F | S <br>
Digital Archiving Solutions <br>
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Suite 200</st1:Street></st1:address><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bethesda</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MD</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">20817</st1:PostalCode></st1:place></st1:address><br>
(301) 654-8088, ext. #111<br>
FAX<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName> 301-654-5789 <br>
Cell<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName> 240-447-8970<br>
<a href="mailto:jyokley@ptfs.com">jyokley@ptfs.com</a> <br>
<a href="http://www.ptfs.com">www.ptfs.com</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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