Metadata is most commonly used to describe a web page and may include: a title, author(s), a description, some keywords and a review date. Metadata about a car might include: the make, the colour and the size of the engine.

HSE has adopted the E-Government Metadata System (e-GMS) to describe its web pages.

All content files need metadata, such as: webpages, PDF documents, Flash files, Microsoft Office files including Word, PowerPoint or Excel.

Further information about how we add metadata to different types of document:

• metadata in HTML pages
• metadata in PDF documents
• metadata in Microsoft Office documents