It is advisable to indicate a date of publication in your books. This date should also be available in the code of your pages. It is one way to help machines identify and classify content.

Objectives

• Provide a publication date to read and index tools
• Increase ranking by reading and classification engines

Implementation

• Use date metadata for publication date
• Use dcterms:modified metadata to indicate the date of the last modification made to the file

Control

• Check the presence and accuracy of the metadata ‘dc:date’
• Check the presence and relevance of the metadata ‘dcterms:modified’