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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Originally From Maria Nucilli (
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mnuccilli@wayne.edu</a> ) </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-transform: none;">Director, Discovery & Innovation at Wayne State in Detroit Michigan</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> via
the VRA Listserv. She</span>’<span style="font-size: 16px;">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. </span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">“<span style="font-size: 16px;"> <i>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. </i></span></div>
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<i>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.</i></div>
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<i>Interested in what approach others have been taking. </i></div>
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<i>Thanks,</i></div>
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<span style="text-transform: none;"><i>Maria </i> "</span></div>
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