Not sure how important they are these days, but they couldn't hurt.
"Google will sometimes use the meta description of a page in search results snippets, if we think it gives users a more accurate description than would be possible purely from the on-page content." - Create good titles and snippets in Search Results
This is also used on our opengraph / twitter metadata, thus sharing, so this is important.
For single items - we have all the info as needed.
Not sure how important they are these days, but they couldn't hurt.
"Google will sometimes use the meta description of a page in search results snippets, if we think it gives users a more accurate description than would be possible purely from the on-page content." - Create good titles and snippets in Search Results
This is also used on our opengraph / twitter metadata, thus sharing, so this is important.
For single items - we have all the info as needed.
We need:
/works
title, image, description Currently: Wellcome Collection search, nothing, nothing/explore
title, image, description Currently: Explore, Exploration for the incurably curious, first image from promos/articles
Currently: Articles, nothing, first image from promos/events
(page doesn't exist yet, but let's have it ready) Currently: Articles, nothing, first image from promos/exhibitions
(page doesn't exist yet, but let's have it ready) Currently: Articles, nothing, first image from promos