[OAI-implementers] DP9- An OAI Gateway Service for Web Crawlers

[Andy Powell]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Xiaoming Liu wrote:

> Persistent and bookmarkable URL for OAI record. An example,     
> 
>  http://arc.cs.odu.edu:8080/dp9/getrecord.jsp?identifier=oai:arXiv:astro-ph/9501031&prefix=oai_dc

Doesn't the '?' in this URL mean that at least some search engines will
not index this resource?  It might be better to configure things so that
the persistent URL is of the form

 http://arc.cs.odu.edu:8080/dp9/getrecord/oai_dc/oai:arXiv:astro-ph/9501031

?

Andy
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