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Add an appropriate title for the resource.

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The Resource Title is crucially important because, along with the Resource Description, it will be used to create search result pages. Together they need to provide searchers enough information to know if the resource contains what they are looking for.

The Title is the Name of an object. It should uniquely identify the resource, just like our names uniquely identify us. The preferred Title for a resource is the name given by the author of the resource.

To find the name given by the author for a resource, check the following (in order of precedence).

1. The resource itself. Often a resource will have a Title at the top of the document, on the first page, or elsewhere in the resource.

2. The Section Page from which the resource is linked. An appropriate title for the resource may sometimes be found on the Section page, either as a link to the resource itself, or as accompanying information.

If no name has been provided by the author in any of the above locations, a new name must be created.

In this example we look at the lecture presentation for the second session of the course.

1. First look at the resource itself.

This example lecture of a lecture note lists "Lecture #7" at the top and "Endomorphism rings" as the main heading of the outline of topics covered in the resource. As "Lecture #7" is very general, and not helpful for identifying the contents of the resource, the "Endomorphism rings" would be better.

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2. Second look at the Section Page.

This Lecture Notes Section Page lists the topics covered by each of the lecture notes in the course. In this example, they are the same as the titles found in the resources.

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The title on the resource itself takes precedence. If the resource had contained no title, or if the title was generic, such as “Lecture 7,” the text on the Section page would have been used

For Resource Titles our practice is usually to use Title Caps, unless it is clear the creator of the resource intended specific capitalization. So while the title for this resource is shown as "Endomorphism rings" we would change that to "Endormorphism Rings."

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3b. General / Description

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