[Ohiodig] Dealing with increased bot traffic on Omeka sites?

[Carissimi, Matt]

Originally From Maria Nucilli ( mnuccilli at wayne.edu<mailto:mnuccilli at wayne.edu> ) Director, Discovery & Innovation at Wayne State in Detroit Michigan via the VRA Listserv. She’s wondering how Omeka users are dealing with increased bot traffic. I know this came up in the fall when we were discussing Digital Repositories but I couldn’t find any meeting notes on the website.

“ Hey everyone, wondering if there are any other Omeka Classic or Omeka S users out there who have found a way to effectively deal with bot traffic.
Since the “AI gold rush” is now in full swing, my team has been dealing with a huge amount of crawler traffic, probably scraping our collections to train AI. Our IT folks have been looking at doing rate limiting on the server, a geo-location limit module, but nothing solid. They initially asked us to consider limiting to our institution IP address range but that is not possible since these are supposed to be public sites.

Interested in what approach others have been taking.

Thanks,
Maria  "

Matt Carissimi

Senior Digitization Specialist

The Ohio State University

University Libraries | Technology and Digital Programs

Digitization Department
Library Tech Center

1165 Kinnear Road Columbus, OH 43212

614-247-8699
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