‘DESCRIPTION’ META tags in locally linked web pages

Craven, Timothy C.

doi:10.1108/eum0000000007054

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“…Results showed that 707 pages (36.5 percent) used the description meta‐tag in 2000, and 687 (35.5 percent) used the description meta‐tag in 2001. Craven (2001b) surveyed 460 Web pages with the aim of measurement of meta‐tags use for the second time. Results showed that 95.1 percent of the pages surveyed use the description meta‐tag.…”

Section: A Glance On the Literature Of Meta‐tag From The Perspective Of This Researchmentioning

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Measurement of the presence of keywords and description meta‐tags on a selected number of Iranian Web sites

Alimohammadi¹

2004

Online Information Review

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Digital information retrieval has been as a problem, and at the same time a research interest for information scientists in recent years. They have planned some solutions to solve problems manifested during the 1990s. Designing meta‐tags and applying them to HTML documents was a remedy in this direction. Meta‐tags can help authors, publishers and indexers of Web pages to analyze intended content more precisely and efficiently. The aim of the present survey is to measure meta‐tags of the Iranian Web sites in accordance with an international criterion. To carry out the research, 346 Iranian Web sites were selected among 3,342, which represented a sample of all Web sites existed in Iranhoo, an Iranian Web directory. The source codes of the sample home pages were reviewed in terms of the presence of keywords and description meta‐tags. The findings of the survey showed that 31.5 percent and 24.6 percent of the Iranian Web sites have keywords and description meta‐tags respectively. The paper concludes that the Iranian Web sites are lower than non‐Iranian Web sites in terms of the use of meta‐tags.

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Section: A Glance On the Literature Of Meta‐tag From The Perspective Of This Researchmentioning

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Measurement of the presence of keywords and description meta‐tags on a selected number of Iranian Web sites

Alimohammadi¹

2004

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“…Researchers interested in this question, such as Craven and Sokvitne, focus their studies on determining the type, amount, and quality of the metadata produced by those posting web pages on the Internet. Craven studies metadata use in general and the description and Title fields in particular (Craven 2000, Craven 2001a, Craven 2001b, Craven 2001c, Craven 2001d, Craven 2002a, Craven 2002b, Craven 2003. This research shows that the content of the description field is very similar to traditional abstracts in terms of language characteristics (Craven 2000) and that these descriptions often change over time as the site is updated (Craven 2001a).…”

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A study of the metadata creation behavior of different user groups on the Internet

Zhang

Jastram

2006

Information Processing & Management

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Metadata is designed to improve information organization and information retrieval effectiveness and efficiency on the Internet. The way web publishers respond to metadata and the way they use it when publishing their web pages, however, is still a mystery. The authors of this paper aim to solve this mystery by defining different professional publisher groups, examining the behaviors of these user groups, and identifying the characteristics of their metadata use.

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“…Several studies have been conducted to determine the characteristics of certain metadata elements currently in use on the internet. Timothy Craven has conducted numerous studies to determine what types of information web authors include in their "description" and "title" elements (Craven, 2000(Craven, , 2001a(Craven, , b, c, d, 2002a(Craven, , b, 2003(Craven, , 2005. Lloyd Sokvitne (2000) has studied the quality of Dublin Core metadata elements in the web pages of large Australian organizations.…”

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A study of metadata element co‐occurrence

Zhang

Jastram

2006

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Purpose-This paper aims to investigate the internet web page metadata usage behavior in terms of their metadata element co-occurrences. Metadata are designed to facilitate both web publishers/authors to organize their web pages and search engines to index the web pages accurately. Design/methodology/approach-This study examines the types of metadata elements employed by different professional groups of web authors, the number of elements they prefer to use, and the types of element combinations they typically embed in their pages' HTML code. Findings-The findings reveal that the "keyword" and "description" elements were the most popular single elements. The most popular combination of two elements was that of "keyword and description". Very few authors included combinations of five elements. This study also shows that preferences for element combinations varied by domains. Originality/value-This approach will enhance the current understanding of metadata usage behavior and may help search engine designers as they continue their quest for improved indexing and retrieval of web pages.

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‘DESCRIPTION’ META tags in locally linked web pages

Cited by 16 publications

References 11 publications

Measurement of the presence of keywords and description meta‐tags on a selected number of Iranian Web sites

Measurement of the presence of keywords and description meta‐tags on a selected number of Iranian Web sites

A study of the metadata creation behavior of different user groups on the Internet

A study of metadata element co‐occurrence

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