Dataverse discovery in Google - Machine Readable Sitemaps

[eugene-barsky]

Hello:

AS per Philip's request, we sat in a Google session about data discoverability, and Dr. Natasha Noy @google was mentioning Google preference to include sitemaps for better data indexing.

They also talked about Google preference for schema.org coding for the landing pages.

Thanks,

Eugene

[jggautier]

Thanks @eugene-barsky! Some more info for this issue: Google's "Build and submit a sitemap" guide

[pdurbin]

Yep, as I mentioned at #2717 (comment) it was about 24 minutes into the video at https://www.rd-alliance.org/making-data-discoverable-web-search-engines that sitemaps were mentioned and the slide above appeared. Thanks for opening this issue @eugene-barsky

[mheppler]

In issue #4555 @pameyer commented:

"Why don't my datasets show up in google?" seems like a question that comes up relatively commonly (but completely out of scope for this issue).

This would be the appropriately scoped issue for that question.

[djbrooke]

We'll estimate this and work on this. I'm removing the schema.org part of the title, since that was delivered in 4.8.4. We still need to add a sitemap. This is more important since Google Dataset Search is now a thing. :)