 | Metadata is information about the
contents of your web page that you embed in the code of the page in
the 'head' of the page.
I am probably more aware than most of the role played by metadata in
resource discovery. |
| Flag a page for a search engine by
using meta-tag keywords |
You can index keywords to your home page to make your web more
accessible to search engines such as Yahoo! or Alta Vista.
- On the File menu, click Properties, and then click
the Custom tab.
- Under User Variables, click Add.
- In the Name box, type keywords.
- In the Value box, type the index keywords for your site,
using commas to separate words.
- Click OK to close the User Meta Variable dialog box,
and then click OK to close the Page Properties dialog
box.
| If you would like your page to have
Dublin Core metadata, then it is worth developing your own
'template' for use with your web site, and perhaps even put metadata
into the head section of each of your pages, varying it to match the
content of the specific page.
Here is the metadata for this page. (You can actually see where the
metadata is embedded in the html code of the page if you go to View
Source) |
<meta
name=DC.Title
content="Metadata">
<meta
name=DC.Identifier
content="http://users.senet.com.au/~kasmith9/tutorials/webs/metadata.htm">
<meta
name=DC.Description
content="Metadata assists in resource
discovery on the internet. This page describes how to use a template to
embed metadata in the code of a web page created by Front Page.">
<meta
name=DC.Subject
content="metadata, Dublin Core,
metadata elements, resource discovery">
<meta
http-equiv="keywords"
content="metadata, Dublin Core, metadata elements, resource
discovery">
<meta
name=DC.Creator
content="kerrie.smith@senet.com.au">
<meta
name=DC.Publisher
content="Kerrie Smith">
<meta
name=DC.Date
content="2003-06-07">
<meta
name=DC.Language
content="en">
| If you would like to use my metadata
template as the basis for your own, then there is a little 'trick'
for using it effectively. Copy this metadata and then paste it into
Notepad. Modify it according to your own requirements. Then copy it
from Notepad into the html of your web page inside the 'head'. i.e.
somewhere between <head> and </head> |
| There are a number of tools on the
internet for helping you create metadata.
One of my favourites is Metadata Magic at http://www.latis.net.au/resources/metamagic/
Metadata Magic asks you to insert information into a form and
it then supplies you with the metadata to copy and paste.
However, DON'T copy and paste straight into Front Page html screen.
Put the metadata into Notepad first and then copy and paste into
Front Page. I have found that if you don't include this step, your
metadata develops some strange gibberish. |
| If you would like to know more about
Metadata check out the EdNA Online pages at http://www.edna.edu.au/metadata/
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