Open Source Discoverability: the journey of unearthing an abundance of hidden data
summary
Explains that a single-page geospatial app (Terria) hides hundreds of datasets from crawlers and that the fix is pragmatic: run headless browser pre-rendering to save static HTML snapshots, configure the web server to serve them, and avoid server-side rendering complexity. Notes a single change — changed one button to an anchor tag — plus a pre-render step and static hosting, surfaces thousands of catalog entries at no extra vendor cost, and results in Google indexing hundreds of datasets.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 2:46The Data Catalog
- 3:40Web Crawling
- 4:24A Search Engine Result Page
- 8:34Server-Side Rendering
- 10:08Downsides
- 11:01Pre Rendering
- 11:39Pre-Rendering 101
- 14:11Other Possible Solutions
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