1. Latest Checklist for new Web sites
(NEWS/NEWS FROM FAO)

...studies and have been grouped into five sections: Content quality Usability and interface Metadata, reference information and search engine optimization Technical quality Regular m...

2. 2.8 Social Media Policy
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...ser account, or making a contribution, please use the text "FAO of the UN www.fao.org" in the metadata. Any content that is submitted to online content sharing services must have the ...

3. Merging the Corporate Document Repository (CDR) and the Online Catalogue (FAODOC).
(NEWS/NEWS FROM FAO)

...on, management and maintenance of material published by FAO. A project is under way to merge the metadata of the Corporate Document Repository (CDR) and the Online Catalogue (FAODOC). Different...

4. Acronyms
(RESOURCES/RESOURCES)

...   Others AgMES Agricultural Metadata Element Set   API ...

5. 6.10 Providing access to search
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...o the new site being published. 2. When you want: Complex queries; searching databases or metadata in combination with a full-text search; Control over crawl frequency; Search port...

6. 5.2c Define metadata and search requirements
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...er this is visible in the design of Web pages (and their navigation) or not. It also implies the use of metadata to guarantee that the information can be found. Metadata is commonly defined as ...

7. 5.4 Define technical implementation
(WEBGUIDE/DESIGN)

...erful open source search engine API (application programmatic interface). CDS efficiently searches both metadata and free text. The CDS has a powerful information syndication mechanism allowing it to ...

8. 4.4f Metadata, search engines and their robots
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

Guideline  Meta tags are collected from Web pages by visiting robots; applications that automatically crawl the Internet to index Web pages. These robots are called spiders&nbs

9. 4.4e FAO standards for encoded metadata
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

Guideline Metadata standards promote a consistent manner in which metadata is created, managed and exchanged. They are mutually accepted guidelines developed by professions, industries

10. 4.4d How to create or improve current metadata
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

Old or incorrect metadata is worse than no metadata, because it distorts the search results (of both internal databases and external search engines) and makes it difficult for people to find the inf

11. 4.4c How to embed basic metadata in the HTML *head* section
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

Guideline Each metadata tag has a different purpose, but the overall objective of metadata on the Web is to facilitate discovery, retrieval and use. Descriptive information about each

12. 4.4b Why embed metadata in Web pages?
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

Search engines rely less than they once did on the metadata in a page when indexing a Web site. This is mostly due to the fact that much metadata is either deliberately or accidentally incorrect. Ho

13. 4.4a What is metadata?
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

Metadata is commonly defined as data about data. Broadly, this means information about a document and its content. While the primary aim of metadata is to improve resource discovery, metadata sets a

14. 4.4 Metadata
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...L 1.1. The specification for XHTML 2.0 is somewhat different. This topic provides an overview of metadata standards, how they are used and applied and guidelines for producing effective, usable...

15. 4.2 FAO content repositories
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...Information Management Services EIMS manages electronic publishing workflows. It also assigns metadata so that information items can be picked up by FAO search engines such as the Informatio...

16. 4.1 Developing a content inventory
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

... from there to do the page-level review. There might be content which has been tagged or described with metadata: you want to capture that as well. Here are some tools that could be used to cap...

17. 3.3 Define the Web site subject scope
(WEBGUIDE/PLANNING)

...optimising the keyword density on the pages to be submitted to external search engines. prepare for metadata-based indexing and cataloguing: the description and the concepts (also to be considered...

18. 3.1 Consultation
(WEBGUIDE/PLANNING)

...ion managers - will you need to adopt any information management standards (e.g. document templates and metadata)? Do you need to set up a workflow that integrates with established workflows? Do you n...

19. 2.2 Roles in Web publishing
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...izing content areas and navigation based on user and project requirements establishing applicable metadata standards, vocabularies to describe the site scope   ...

20. 1.2 Quality criteria of Web sites
(WEBGUIDE/INTRODUCTION)

... environment. Retrievability Site management should ensure that the Web site contains relevant metadata so that it is retrievable (findable) through the FAO Web site and main Internet search ...

21. 9.1a Maintaining quality
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

...ositories. Consider adding dynamic pages to areas of your site that require continual maintenance. Metadata As content on Web pages change, it is important to keep metadata up to date. FAO's ...

22. 6.12b Web site content management systems
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...uilt on top of Lucene, a powerful open source search engine API, allowing it to efficiently search both metadata and free text of content. The CDS has a powerful information syndication mechanism allo...

23. 6.9a How to prepare print-safe Web pages using CSS
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...;html> <head> <title>Print-safe webpage</title> <meta content="text/html;CHARSET=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> ...

24. 6.5a Converting Word documents into PDF
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...ks should be used to facilitate navigation within the PDF file(s); and it should contain appropriate metadata in the properties area of the PDF file, as this data is displayed by the FAO search eng...

25. 6.4a Graphic formats
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...luded as an illustration in other PostScript language page descriptions. WMF/EMF In general, a metafile is a list of commands that can be played to render a graphic. Typically, a metafile is ...

26. 6.2e HTML metadata tag
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

HTML includes a meta element that goes inside the "head" tag at the top of Web pages. The purpose of this meta element is to provide meta-information about the page so that browsers or sea

27. 2.7c Content Management Systems (CMS)
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...rk is built on Lucene, a powerful open source search engine API, allowing it to efficiently search both metadata and free text. The CDS has a powerful information syndication mechanism allowing it to ...

28. 2.6e Target platform specifications
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...der 60 KB (including all associated elements), and other HTML pages under 100 KB. The download timetable below gives you an idea of how long it takes to download a range of file sizes at the cu...

29. 2.5b Minimum current guidelines for language policy
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...that the Web site's home page (at least) is translated into the six languages. This is also so that the metadata record for the site can be included in the FAO search engine, the Information Finder. ...

30. Agricultural Metadata Element Set Home page (AgMES)
(Web Links / Web Guide Links)

4.4f-agmes, 5.2c-agmes

31. W3C (Web standards body): HTML 4.0 standard for tag
(Web Links / Web Guide Links)

4.4f-body

32. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
(Web Links / Web Guide Links)

4.4f-dcmi