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\"320px-Books\"Open Access<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>publishing is gaining popularity and, at the same time, increasing numbers of academics are uploading their papers on their personal websites, faculty pages, and blogs. This is great news for people who don’t have the luxury of an institution to pay for their access to the usually pay-walled research databases. Along with this positive development, I think\u00a0providing\u00a0bibliographical\u00a0metadata in academic websites and blogs should become more of a priority. It is necessary for bibliography managers such as Mendeley<\/a> and Zotero<\/a> to quickly, easily, and accurately store, retrieve, and reference\u00a0academic papers, which can save other academics, science writers, journalists, and students hours of work for each paper or article they write. If academic websites and blogs provide the metadata to support bibliography managers, it means that it’s that much easier for people to cite their\u00a0research and provide links back to their\u00a0websites, faculty pages, or\u00a0blogs.\u00a0However, unlike research databases, most websites, faculty pages, and blogs don’t usually provide this bibliographical\u00a0metadata.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is bibliographic\u00a0metadata?<\/h3>\n

Metadata is intended for machines, rather than people to read. Bibliographic metadata tells bibliography managers and search engines\u00a0by whom, when, where, what, and how\u00a0an\u00a0article or paper was published and makes it easier for people to find through title, author, subject, and keyword searches.<\/p>\n

Can we embed it in a blog?<\/h3>\n

I use\u00a0WordPress<\/a> (this blog is built on my own customised version of WordPress) and it’s the most widely used and popular blogging software on the internet. While there’s a large and diverse range of plugins and extensions available, a search shows that while there are several that provide metadata<\/a> for search engine optimisation<\/a> (SEO), few offer support for bibliography managers, and none of the ones I’ve found support the minimum required metadata for academic citations. In order to find out how difficult or easy embedding metadata is, I tried an experiment on this blog to automatically generate as much relevant metadata from standard WordPress format blog posts as possible.<\/p>\n

What does academic bibliography\u00a0metadata look like?<\/h3>\n

Here’s an example metadata set for a published academic paper in an academic journal database (Applied Linguistics, Oxford Journals):<\/p>\n

<!-- start of citation metadata -->\n<meta content=\"\/applij\/4\/1\/23.atom\" name=\"HW.identifier\" \/>\n<meta name=\"DC.Format\" content=\"text\/html\" \/>\n<meta name=\"DC.Language\" content=\"en\" \/>\n<meta content=\"Analysis-by-Rhetoric: Reading the Text or the Reader's Own Projections? A Reply to Edelsky et al.1\" name=\"DC.Title\" \/>\n<meta content=\"10.1093\/applin\/4.1.23\" name=\"DC.Identifier\" \/>\n<meta content=\"1983-03-20\" name=\"DC.Date\" \/>\n<meta content=\"Oxford University Press\" name=\"DC.Publisher\" \/>\n<meta content=\"JIM CUMMINS\" name=\"DC.Contributor\" \/>\n<meta content=\"MERRILL SWAIN\" name=\"DC.Contributor\" \/>\n<meta content=\"Applied Linguistics\" name=\"citation_journal_title\" \/>\n<meta content=\"Applied Linguistics\" name=\"citation_journal_abbrev\" \/>\n<meta content=\"0142-6001\" name=\"citation_issn\" \/>\n<meta content=\"1477-450X\" name=\"citation_issn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"citation_author\" content=\"JIM CUMMINS\" \/>\n<meta name=\"citation_author\" content=\"MERRILL SWAIN\" \/>\n<meta content=\"Analysis-by-Rhetoric: Reading the Text or the Reader's Own Projections? A Reply to Edelsky et al.1\" name=\"citation_title\" \/>\n<meta content=\"03\/20\/1983\" name=\"citation_date\" \/>\n<meta content=\"4\" name=\"citation_volume\" \/>\n<meta content=\"1\" name=\"citation_issue\" \/>\n<meta content=\"23\" name=\"citation_firstpage\" \/>\n<meta content=\"41\" name=\"citation_lastpage\" \/>\n<meta content=\"4\/1\/23\" name=\"citation_id\" \/>\n<meta content=\"4\/1\/23\" name=\"citation_id_from_sass_path\" \/>\n<meta content=\"applij;4\/1\/23\" name=\"citation_mjid\" \/>\n<meta content=\"10.1093\/applin\/4.1.23\" name=\"citation_doi\" \/>\n<meta content=\"http:\/\/0-applij.oxfordjournals.org.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca\/content\/4\/1\/23.full.pdf\" name=\"citation_pdf_url\" \/>\n<meta content=\"http:\/\/0-applij.oxfordjournals.org.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca\/content\/4\/1\/23\" name=\"citation_public_url\" \/>\n<meta name=\"citation_section\" content=\"Article\" \/>\n<!-- end of citation metadata --><\/pre>\n
An APA Style (6th Edition) formatted citation from this metadata would look like this:<\/p>\n
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Cummins, J., & Swain, M. (1983). Analysis-by-Rhetoric: Reading the Text or the Reader\u2019s Own Projections? A Reply to Edelsky et al.1. Applied Linguistics<\/i>, 4<\/i>(1), 23\u201341. http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/applin\/4.1.23<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
How can I add bibliographic metadata to my website or blog?<\/h3>\n
If you use WordPress, you’re in luck. I’ve made some modifications to my WordPress theme so that the appropriate bibliographic metadata is automatically added to the head section of each blog article.<\/p>\n
Pre-requisites<\/h4>\n