The term meta simply put means information about information. In database context,
often called meta data, it is understood as "information about data". In the Web world,
we have special HTML tags called meta tags ( <meta.../> ) that translates as "information
about this web page". In living by example I've incorporated the HTML code used to
develop this site as example.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<title>Web Developers :: WebDev :: University of Memphis</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="webdev, WebDev, Web Developers individuals meet to
share ideas and support with web-related technologies. WebDev discusses web-related
issues, designing, development and programming techniques., Web Developers, University
of Memphis" />
<meta name="description" content="Web Developers group individuals meet to share ideas
and support with web-related technologies. WebDev meet to discuss web-related issues,
designing, development and programming techniques." />
<meta name="title" content="Web Developers" />
<meta name="subject" content="Web Developers group individuals meet to share ideas
and support with web-related technologies. WebDev meet to discuss web-related issues,
designing, development and programming techniques." />
<meta name="date" content="12/19/2006 10:16:57" />
<meta name="modified" content="12/19/2006 10:16:57" />
<meta name="author" content="Web Services" />
<meta name="publisher" content="Web Developers" />
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright 2007 University of Memphis" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-US" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="DC.title" content="Web Developers" />
<meta name="DC.subject" content="Web Developers group individuals meet to share ideas
and support with web-related technologies. WebDev meet to discuss web-related issues,
designing, development and programming techniques." />
<meta name="DC.date" content="12/19/2006 10:16:57" />
<meta name="DC.description" content="Web Developers group individuals meet to share
ideas and support with web-related technologies. WebDev meet to discuss web-related
issues, designing, development and programming techniques." />
<meta name="DC.publisher" content="Web Developers" />
<meta name="DC.creator" content="Sam Jones" />
<meta name="DC.creator.email" content="mailto:sam_jones@memphis.edu" />
<meta name="DC.type" content="web page" />
<meta name="DC.format" content="text/html" />
<meta name="DC.identifier" content="http://www.memphis.edu/webdev/" />
<meta name="DC.language" content="English" />
<meta http-equiv="Last-Modified" content="12/19/2006 10:16:57" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="12/19/2006 10:16:57" />
<link rel="copyright" href="http://testumwww.memphis.edu:7440/itd/notice.php" title="Important
Notice" />
<link rel="start" href="http://www.memphis.edu/webdev/" title="Web Developers" />
<link rel="contents" href="http://www.memphis.edu/webdev/" title="Web Developers"
/>
<link title="text-only version" rel="alternate" href="http://testumwww.memphis.edu:7440/itd/betsie/parser.pl"
media="aural, braille, tty" />
<link href="mailto:webservices@memphis.edu" rev="made" title="Web Developers" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/webdev/css/style.css" media="screen"
/>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/webdev/css/print.css" media="print"
/>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
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