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Ensure Item Metadata appears in the HTML HEAD
It's possible to greatly customize the look and feel of your DSpace, which makes it harder for search engines, and other tools and services such as Zotero, Connotea and SIMILE Piggy Bank, to correctly pick out item metadata fields. To address this, DSpace includes item metadata in the <head> element of each item's HTML display page.
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<meta name="DC.type" content="Article" />
<meta name="DCTERMS.contributor" content="Tansley, Robert" /> |
If you have heavily customized your metadata fields away from Dublin Core, you can modify the service which generates these elements by modifying https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/blob/main/src/app/core/metadata/metadata.service.ts
Google Scholar Metadata in HTML HEAD
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These meta tags are the "Highwire Press tags" which Google Scholar recommends. If you have heavily customized your metadata fields, or wish to change the default "mappings" to these Highwire Press tags, you may do so by modifying https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/blob/main/src/app/core/metadata/metadatahead-tag.service.ts (see for example the "setCitationAuthorTags()" method in that service class)
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