F4. Indexed in a searchable resource

metric

What is being measured? The degree to which the digital resource can be found using web-based search engines. What must be provided? The persistent identifier of the resource and one or more URLs that give search results of different search engines. How do we measure it? We perform an HTTP GET on the URLs provided and attempt to to find the persistent identifier in the page that is returned. A second step might include following each of the top XX hits and examine the resulting documents for presence of the identifier.

Principle: F

Rationale: Why should we measure it? Most people use a search engine to initiate a search for a particular digital resource of interest. If the resource or its metadata are not indexed by web search engines, then this would substantially diminish an individual’s ability to find and reuse it. Thus, the ability to discover the resource should be tested using i) its identifier, ii) other text-based metadata.

FAIR Metrics: F4 - (meta)data are registered or indexed in a searchable resource

URL(s):

• https://github.com/FAIRMetrics/Metrics/blob/master/Distributions/FM_F4.tex

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