[Web4lib] Metadata for Library Web Pages?

[Ross Singer]

Another possibility (and community) to get involved in would be
Microformats.  This marks up semantics in the HTML of the page to be
machine readable.  The advantage there is that meta tags only exist in
the head, so it's difficult (and unwieldly) to associate them with all
the specific items on the page (instead, think of "collection level"
metadata).  Microformats would be like marking up the item (and would
probably be easier to integrate into a CMS).

Check out:
http://www.microformats.org/

-Ross.

On 4/20/06, Popp, Mary Pagliero <popp at indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi!  We are working hard to add more metadata to our web pages so that
> they are more easily found by our own and other search engines.  I am
> writing to ask all of you two questions:
>
> 1.      Do any of you have guidelines for metadata/metatags on HTML
> pages?  If so, are you willing to share them?
>
>         2.      Are there any Content Management systems out there that
> create metadata automatically from the contents of data included in web
> pages?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Mary
> ----------------------------------------------
> Mary Pagliero Popp
> Public Services Librarian, Library Information Technology
> Indiana University Libraries, Wells Library E456
> 1320 E. 10th Street
> Bloomington, IN   47405
> 812-855-8170      FAX: 812-856-7949    popp at indiana.edu
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