Example 1
Here is how the metadata would look for the example of Section 2; the information is embedded in the <HEAD></HEAD> section of the HTML 4.0 code of that page:
<META NAME="DC.Title" CONTENT="On qualitative properties of residual equations on supercomplex subdomains"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#title">
<META NAME="DC.Creator.PersonalName" CONTENT="Hermix, H."> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#creator">
<META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="residual equations"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#subject">
<META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="supercomplex subdomains"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#subject">
<META NAME="DC.Subject" SCHEME="MSC" CONTENT="30G99"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#subject">
<META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT="We consider some qualitative properties of residual equations on supercomplex subdomains."> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#description">
<META NAME="DC.Publisher" CONTENT="Mathematics Department, Berlin University, Germany"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#publisher">
<META NAME="DC.Date" SCHEME="ISO8601" CONTENT="2000-01-18"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#date">
<META NAME="DC.Type" CONTENT="Text.Article"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#type">
<META NAME="DC.Format" SCHEME="IMT" CONTENT="application/pdf"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#format"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.imt HREF="http://sunsite.auc.dk/RFC/rfc/rfc2046.html">
<META NAME="DC.Format" SCHEME="IMT" CONTENT="application/postscript"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#format"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.imt HREF="http://sunsite.auc.dk/RFC/rfc/rfc2046.html">
<META NAME="DC.Format.X-Carrier" CONTENT="file"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#format">
<META NAME="DC.Identifier" SCHEME="ISSN" CONTENT="1234-5678"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#identifier">
<META NAME="DC.Identifier" SCHEME="URL" CONTENT="http://www.berlin.edu/EEJ/5/1/1.html"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#identifier">
<META NAME="DC.Language" SCHEME="ISO639-1" CONTENT="en"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#language">
<META NAME="DC.Rights" CONTENT="Copyright 2000 Berlin University"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#rights">
<META NAME="EULER.Identifier" CONTENT="ELibM Example Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-23"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://www.lub.lu.se/EULER/partners/metadatacreator.html">
<META NAME="DC.Date.X-MetadataLastModified" SCHEME="ISO8601" CONTENT="2000-01-17"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#date">
Example 2
Assume that the HTML code of our example page is as follows:
<HTML>
<HEAD> <TITLE>ELibM Example Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-23, 2000</TITLE> </HEAD>
<BODY> <B> ELibM Example Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-23 (2000)</B>
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<CENTER><H1>On qualitative properties of residual equations on supercomplex subdomains</H1> <H2>H. Hermix, P. Wooding and R. Slate</H2> </CENTER>
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<P><B>Classification (MSC2000):</B> 30G99</P> <P><B>Full text of the article:</B></P> <P><UL><LI><A HREF="hermix.dvi.gz">Compressed DVI file</A> (26790 Bytes)</UL></P>
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The corresponding template page would look like this:
<HTML>
<HEAD> <TITLE>@journaltitle, Vol. @volume, No. @issue, pp. @pages, @year</TITLE> </HEAD>
<BODY> <B> @journaltitle, Vol. @volume, No. @issue, pp. @pages (@year)</B>
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<CENTER><H1>@title</H1> <H2>@authors</H2> </CENTER>
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<P><B>Classification (MSC2000):</B> @classifications</P> <P><B>Full text of the article:</B></P> <P><UL><LI><A HREF="@filename.dvi.gz">Compressed DVI file</A> (26790 Bytes)</UL></P>
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<I><FONT SIZE=-1>Created @other © @other <A href="../../eej.html">ELibM Example Journal</A> </FONT></I>
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Caution: The metadata extraction only works if all the variable parts of a page are properly identified by metadata identification tags.