Download Appendix A - Index of metadata elements

Appendix A - Index of metadata elements
Tag
Rules
Example
Required
for
Recommended
for
DC.Title
Avoid using generic site
names.
<meta name=”DC.Title” content=”How to use
EndNote.”>
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School
web sites
Other web
pages
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School
web sites
Other web
pages
NOT
<meta name=”DC.Title” content=”UWA Library - How
to use EndNote.”>
DC.Creator
If it is the name of a person,
surname should be written
first, then followed by the
initial. In the case of a group
or team, if a hierarchy is
known, list the parts of the
hierarchy from largest to
smallest.
Multiple instances of the
DC.Creator tag should be
used for each creator which
cannot be grouped into a
larger unit.
<meta name=”DC.Creator” content=”IAAF,
[email protected]”>
Tag
Rules
Example
DC.Subject
Keywords
Keywords are a single word
or a phrase of two or three
words.
For
lengthier
descriptions using sentences
and/or abstracts use the
DESCRIPTION field. Both
tags must be used.
<meta name=”DC.Subject” content=”phone, computer
For single word or two or
three word phrase
descriptions use
KEYWORDS. Both tags
must be used.
<meta name=”DC.Description” content=”Homepage for
If the publisher is the same
as the Creator do not fill in
this field.
<meta name=”DC.Publisher” content=”The University of
DC.Description
Description
DC.Publisher
If it is the name of a person,
surname should be written
first, then followed by the
initial. In the case of a group
or team, if a hierarchy is
known, list the parts of the
hierarchy from largest to
network, Internet Communications, Telephone”>
<meta name=”Keywords” content=”phone, computer
network, Internet Communications, Telephone”>
UWA, located in Western Australia.”>
<meta name=”Description” content=”Homepage for
UWA, located in Western Australia”>
Western Australia, Faculty of Science”>
Required
for
Recommended
for
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School
web sites
Other web
pages
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School
web sites
Other web
pages
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School web
sites
Tag
Rules
Example
Required
for
Recommended
for
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School web
sites
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School web
sites
Other web
pages
content=”1999-02-23”>
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School
web sites
<meta name=”DC.Date.Published” schema=”W3C-DTF”
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School web
sites
Central
web sites
Faculty &
Other web
pages
smallest.
DC.Date.Created
DC.Date.Valid
DC.Date.Modified
DC.Date.Issued
Give the date in the form
YYYY-MM-DD e.g. 200202-05 corresponds to 5th Feb
2002. Separate the digits
with dashes.
This is defined in W3CDTF Schema1, a profile of
ISO 8601.
<meta name=”DC.Date.Created” schema=”W3C-DTF”
content=”2002-02-05”>
<meta name=”DC.Date.Valid” schema=”W3C-DTF”
content=”2001-03-14”>
<meta name=”DC.Date.Modified” schema=”W3C-DTF”
content=”1999-11-26”>
DC.Rights
Best practice involves
pointing directly to the
owner’s copyright statement
<meta name=”DC.Rights” content=”Copyright 1999,
Legal Services, The University of Western Australia”>
Tag
Rules
Example
Required
for
Recommended
for
School
web sites
(URL).
The University should
always be acknowledged as
having copyright for all
official University web
pages.
A DC.Rights tag may need
to be created to accompany
each instance of the
DC.Creator tag; eg if there
were multiple creators
which could not be grouped
into a larger unit.
DC.Format
Use Internet Media Type
(IMT) Scheme; also known
as MIME Types.2
<meta name=”DC.Format” content=”text/html”>
DC. Source
Source is only used if the
information is full or partly
derived from another
source. Standard citation
format must be used.
<meta name=”DC.Source” content=”Milkman, R. 1998,
'The new American workplace: high road or low road?', in
Workplaces of the Future, eds P. Thompson & C.
Warhurst, Macmillan Press, London, pp. 22-34.”>
Multiple instances of
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School web
sites
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School web
sites
Tag
Rules
Example
Required
for
Recommended
for
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School web
sites
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School
web sites
Other web
pages
Other web
pages
content=”http://www.uwa.edu.au/index.html”>
Central
web sites
Faculty &
School
web sites
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft
FrontPage 5.0">
Central
web sites
DC.Source should be used
to indicate multiple source
documents, if required.3
DC.Language
One of the two- or three-
<meta name=”DC.Language” content=”en”>
letter codes for the world’s
languages should be used.4
For example, the code for
English is ‘en’.
DC-Ed.Audience
DC.Identifier
Generator
Use audience groups such as
UWA staff, UWA students,
All internet users, or a
University unit code.
<meta name=”DC-Ed.Audience” content=”UWA Staff,
Use the URL or URN of the
document.
<meta name=”DC.Identifier”
The full name and version
number of the software
UWA Students”>
Other web
Tag
Rules
Example
used.
1 Date and Time Formats. W3C NOTE-datetime. http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
Required
for
Recommended
for
Faculty &
School
web sites
pages