[WEB4LIB] How to describe a site?

[Dan Robinson Indexing Services]

Hanan, it is important to use the 'real' title of the website or 
webpage in your list. If the link gets broken for some reason, the 
user can use the title to search the site (if that option exists), or 
start the backtrack through a search engine. It doesn't matter that 
the title seems to make no sense. 

You give the titles 'sense' in your description and keywords.  If you 
have a few sites on 'eating disorders', then that phrase should be in 
your keywords. A keyword list will bring them all together. Many 
times the HTML Title will be different from the written title for a page 
in one of the head fields. Then I would include the written title in the 
description. 

Also, think of the problems that you'll create for yourself when 
trying to update or check for live links later. You won't be able to 
print a list of links and titles and check them off. You'll have to 
either retrieve your whole entry for everything, or try to remember 
where you used the real title and where you didn't. And, if you give 
the updating to someone else, they'll find the site with the 'real' 
title, check it against your titles, and enter a new record, since it 
obviously doesn't exist in your list. 


Dan Robinson
Indexing Services
H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson at hwwilson.com


On 11 May 00, at 3:24, Hanan Cohen wrote:

>.
> 
> While adding sites to my "sites database for libraries" I had a feeling
> that I am doing something wrong. In the database, each site has a title,
> description and keywords. 
> 
> In the sites' title I didn't enter the exact title of the site but a
> title that I thought best described the information available on the
> site. 
> 
>...........
> 
> Oh, mighty librarians, please enlighten me! I am in the dark...;-)
> 
> -- 
> Hanan Cohen - http://www.info.org.il
> ***Love and Peace***