This can help facilitate a fully automated web harvest of content in situations where an export is not a feasible approach. Bibliographic metadata is a vital component of a publication preservation package. As with other metadata it’s best to use a broadly adopted standard such as Google Scholar, Dublin Core, or PRISM. Cover the core bibliographic information to make the publication findable, and be consistent. An expression of the material’s license, for example, through <link rel="license" href=...>, is valuable since this can support an archive’s understanding of whether the material can be preserved and how it can be reused. Note that HTTP Link headers can also be used to convey some metadata and can be applied to the HTTP Response of both HTML and non-HTML web resources. An approach to this is described on signposting.org.
These guidelines may also be relevant when generating bibliographic metadata:
21. Provide bibliographic metadata with exported publications
30. Bibliographic metadata in the context of EPUBs
40. The license for external resources can be expressed in HTML