Description

1) The process of analyzing, organizing, and recording information that serves to identify, manage, locate, and explain documentary material, and the contexts and record systems from which that material was selected. See also [a href="##"]Hierarchical Description[/a].2) The written representation or products of the above process.

an archival term for any label, list, inventory catalog, administrative history, biography, or other finding aid or writing that is composed by archivists to convey the identity, arrangement, and historical context of records to other archivists or to public users; it is also the function or work process of creating such finding aids.

Descriptive text associated with a web page and displayed, usually with the page title and URL, when the page appears in a list of pages generated by a search engine or directory as a result of a query. Some search engines take this description from the DESCRIPTION Meta tag - others generate their own from the text in the page. Directories often use text provided at registration.

Directories and search engines provide a short description near each listing which aims to add context to the title. High quality directories typically prefer the description describes what the site is about rather than something that is overtly promotional in nature. Search engines typically use a description from a trusted directory (such as DMOZ or the Yahoo! Directory) for homepages of sites listed in those directories use the page meta description (especially if it is relevant to the search query and has the words from the search query in it) attempt to extract a description from the page content which is relevant for the particular search query and ranking page (this is called a snippet) or some combination of the above