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The Framework of the " Subject Web Pages by Librarians" page

As part of it's charge, the KnowNet Team was to develope a framework for access to the library's WWW subject pages. Our prototype page for this is at http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/library/subject_specialists/. It provides browsing of topics by either broad subject catagories of by a complete list of topics and it also allows keyword searching for topics.

These pages are generated automatically from the meta tages and the <TITLE...</TITLE> tags incorporated in the subject pages.

What you need to add to your "Webography" pages

• The "category" META tag

  Add a meta tag with the name "category" and the content one of:
  • AREA - Area studies
  • FAH - Fine Arts and Humanities
  • SS - Social Sciences
  • ST - Science and Technology
  <META NAME="category" CONTENT="FAH, AREA">

• The "keywords" META tag

  Add a meta tag with the name "category" and the content a list of comma delimied topics. This is one of the "standard" meta tags used by Web search engines to index pages, but in our case we will restrict the keywords listed to those that would be appropriate in the subject lists on our Web site.
  
  <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Biosciences, Biology, Botany, Zoology">
  
  The "keywords" meta tag can contain many topics, seperated by comas, and can wrap to multiple lines. Using standard capitalization is prefered, but for the time being the listings are being generated with only the first character capitalized because of varying pratices in the existing files. Please consider carefully what topics a library user might resonably expect to find your pages listed under and add these to the meta tag. We urge you to tend toward inclusiveness, to include keywords that reflect overlap between subject assignments (in both pages) and to include keywords that reflect the interdiciplinary aspects of many fields of study and that extend beyond the traditional deparmentally organized boundaries of knowledge.
  • To allow the inculsion of commas in the keyword (so you can list a page under "History, Women's", for example), The "<" can be used to replace commas (since commas are used to seperate topics, a substitue character must be used).
    
    <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Film and Videos< Women's, Science< Women in">
    
    will result in the following listings:
    Film and Videos, Women's
    and
    Science, Women In

• The <TITLE>...</TITLE> tag

  The actual title of each Web page listed in the browse screens and the keyword searching is from the <TITLE>...</TITLE> tags of the subject page. Currently there are a wide variety of practices used, in terms of both content and capitalization. The authors of the subject pages are asked to review these and update them to contain a description of the contents of the file and to use standard capilaization practices. Ideally, we would like to see these tags look something like:
  
  <TITLE>Information Resources in French Lanugage, Literature and Culture</TITLE>
  
  <TITLE>African American Studies</TITLE>
  
  
  • Please don't use titles based on just the name of the author (<TITLE>John Smith's Home Page</TITLE>) or just the name of a campus library (<TITLE>The Baja Arizona Studies Library</TITLE>).

Instructions on how to edit these tags in Netscape and Dreamweaver

If you create a new Web page to be included in the Subject Web pages or if you move one of the pages that are already listed there, you must contact LIST to have the list of pages that are included updated.