Metadata tags

The following information describes the detail of each university metadata tag. For more information about the university metadata standard, see the Metadata topic page.

Non-editable metatag

This tag does not need to be edited. If your webpage requires a different characterset contact the Web Centre.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Editable metatags

The bolded content sections of these tags should be filled in for each page. Within each content section the lowercase text suggests the the text to be included and the uppercase text suggests the text that must be written to reflect the meta information specific to your page.

<meta name="DC.Title" content="PAGE TITLE : SUBSITE TITLE : University of Melbourne" />

<meta name="DC.Creator" content="The University of Melbourne, DIVISION/FACULTY, DEPARTMENT, PERSON'S NAME" />

<meta name="UM.Creator.Email" content="CREATOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS" />

<meta name="DC.Subject" content="TEN KEY PHRASES OF 2-3 WORDS EACH: WHAT WOULD USERS TYPE INTO A SEARCH ENGINE TO FIND THIS PAGE?" />

<meta name="keywords" content="TEN KEY PHRASES OF 2-3 WORDS EACH: WHAT WOULD USERS TYPE INTO A SEARCH ENGINE TO FIND THIS PAGE?" />

<meta name="DC.Description" content="LEAD/TEASER SENTENCE OF 20-30 WORDS SUMMARISING CONTENT OF THE PAGE" />

<meta name="description" content="LEAD/TEASER SENTENCE OF 20-30 WORDS SUMMARISING CONTENT OF THE PAGE" />

<meta name="DC.Publisher" content="The University of Melbourne, FACULTY/DIVISION, DEPARTMENT" />

<meta name="DC.Contributor" content="NAME AND CONTACT DETAILS FOR EACH CONTRIBUTOR. ONE CONTRIBUTOR PER TAG. COPY AND PASTE THIS TAG AS MANY TIMES AS NEEDED." />

<meta name="DC.Rights" content="http://www.unimelb.edu.au/disclaimer/" />

<meta name="DC.Date" scheme="ISO 8601" content="YYYY-MM-DD" />

<meta name="UM.Date.ReviewDue" scheme="ISO 8601" content="YYYY-MM-DD" />

<meta name="UM.Authoriser.Name" content="AUTHORISER'S NAME" />

<meta name="UM.Authoriser.Title" content="AUTHORISER'S TITLE, DEPARTMENT, FACULTY/DIVISION" />

<meta name="UM.Maintainer.Name" content="MAINTAINER'S NAME" />

<meta name="UM.Maintainer.Department" content="MAINTAINER'S DEPARTMENT, FACULTY/DIVISION" />

<meta name="UM.Maintainer.Email" content="MAINTAINER'S EMAIL ADDRESS" />

<meta name="DC.Language" scheme="RFC 1766" content="en" />

<meta name="DC.Format" scheme="IMT" content="text/html" />

Automatically generated metatags

The following tags include server generate scripting to automate the completion of the tags. These tags do not need to be altered.

<meta name="DC.Identifier" content="http://<!--#echo var='HTTP_HOST'--><!--#echo var='REQUEST_URI'-->" />

<!--#config timefmt="%Y-%m-%d" -->
<meta name="DC.Date.Modified" scheme="ISO 8601" content="<!--#flastmod virtual='${DOCUMENT_NAME}' -->" />