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title: What an AI agent reads on RIBA Library · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/riba.org/agent-view?format=md
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# What an AI agent reads on RIBA Library

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. This is that view of [riba.org](https://www.architecture.com/contact-and-visit/riba-library), from the copy the scanner kept.

12,044

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

2

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (GPTBot, ClaudeBot)

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Our Library and CollectionsRoyal Institute of British Architects · language en. First 1,800 of 12,044 characters:

```
Our Library and Collections Royal Institute of British Architects Skip Navigation Work Work Join us Insights and Resources Professional Features Business services My local RIBA RIBA Plan of Work RIBAJ Learn Learn RIBA CPD Professional Learning Solutions Become an architect Public and school learning Explore Explore Library and Collections House of Architecture Find an architect Awards Competitions Exhibitions Campaigns Campaigns Campaigns Building and fire safety Climate action Equity, diversity and inclusion News What's on Shop Join us Search Search Frequently searched Collections Stirling Prize AI report Campaigns Close Basket Items Close Product Price Sub-total +VAT Discounts Total +VAT Prices exclude VAT. VAT is calculated at checkout. Checkout Join us Work Work Join us Insights and Resources Professional Features Business services My local RIBA RIBA Plan of Work RIBAJ Learn Learn RIBA CPD Professional Learning Solutions Become an architect Public and school learning Explore Explore Library and Collections House of Architecture Find an architect Awards Competitions Exhibitions Campaigns Campaigns Campaigns Building and fire safety Climate action Equity, diversity and inclusion News What's on Shop Join us RIBA / … / RIBA Collections / RIBA / Explore / RIBA Collections / × RIBA / Explore / RIBA Collections / RIBA Library Our library offers access to books, periodicals, and photographs ranging from 15th century illustrated texts to the latest architectural journals Search the catalogue One of the world's leading architectural libraries Our Library has temporarily relocated due to our House of Architecture investment programme. Our Library and Collections previously held at 66 Portland Place are open at two interim sites. Where you can find us The London Archi
```

 Facts

## What it can state about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 0 |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found. An agent has nothing to act on.

Everything here comes from one fetch of the homepage as a crawler; the [report](https://directindex.org/r/riba.org) turns it into a score and fixes, with a kit to paste.

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#### For agents

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Business listings from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Scores under the same licence.

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","founder":{"@type":"Person","name":"Antonio Curado"},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
```