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Title

Label: Title
Mandatory/Recommended: Mandatory
Controlled Vocab: no
Repeatable: No

Definition

Name of the resource

Instructions

Titles should include place names and dates when available.

The title is the most prominent metadata field that users see when browsing or scanning search results. Since many datasets are created with ambiguous or non-unique titles, it may be worth the effort to improve or enhance them. The ideal sequence of a title is something akin to Topic of Layer: Place, Year. Putting the year at the end of a title produces better search results, since titles are left-anchored.

Examples

Roads: Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2010