How can I hide metadata fields in page source code?

Question

I've found out that certain metadata fields, that have personal details, are being shown in the source code of my item page as metadata xml, is there any way to hide them? I did set the "metadata.hide.[...]" field in my configurations file to hide these values. Thanks in advance.

this is my metadata.hide, it works fine and these fields doesn't show in the full item record, mets,etc, to normal users, they do appear in the source code for google metadata though.

metadata.hide.dc.creator.ID = true
metadata.hide.dc.contributor.advisor1ID = true
metadata.hide.dc.contributor.advisor1ID = true
metadata.hide.dc.contributor.advisor2ID = true
metadata.hide.dc.contributor.advisor-co1ID = true
metadata.hide.dc.contributor.advisor-co2ID = true
metadata.hide.dc.contributor.referee1ID = true
metadata.hide.dc.contributor.referee2ID = true
metadata.hide.dc.contributor.referee3ID = true
metadata.hide.dc.contributor.referee4ID = true
metadata.hide.dc.contributor.referee5ID = true

new edit: xhtml-head-item.properties:

    dc.contributor                 = DC.contributor
    dc.contributor.author          = DC.creator
    dc.coverage.spatial            = DCTERMS.spatial
    dc.coverage.temporal           = DCTERMS.temporal
    dc.creator                     = DC.creator
    dc.date                        = DC.date,DCTERMS.W3CDTF
    dc.date.accessioned            = DCTERMS.dateAccepted,DCTERMS.W3CDTF
    dc.date.available              = DCTERMS.available,DCTERMS.W3CDTF
    dc.date.copyright              = DCTERMS.dateCopyrighted,DCTERMS.W3CDTF
    dc.date.created                = DCTERMS.created,DCTERMS.W3CDTF
    dc.date.issued                 = DCTERMS.issued,DCTERMS.W3CDTF
    dc.identifier                  = DC.identifier
    dc.identifier.citation         = DCTERMS.bibliographicCitation
    dc.identifier.uri              = DC.identifier,DCTERMS.URI
    dc.description                 = DC.description
    dc.description.abstract        = DCTERMS.abstract
    dc.description.tableofcontents = DCTERMS.tableOfContents
    dc.description.uri             = DC.description,DCTERMS.URI
    dc.format                      = DC.format
    dc.format.extent               = DCTERMS.extent
    dc.format.medium               = DCTERMS.medium
    dc.language                    = DC.language
    dc.language.iso                = DC.language,DCTERMS.RFC1766
    dc.publisher                   = DC.publisher
    dc.relation                    = DC.relation
    dc.relation.isformatof         = DCTERMS.isFormatOf
    dc.relation.ispartof           = DCTERMS.isPartOf
    dc.relation.haspart            = DCTERMS.hasPart
    dc.relation.isversionof        = DCTERMS.isVersionOf
    dc.relation.hasversion         = DCTERMS.hasVersion
    dc.relation.isreferencedby     = DCTERMS.isReferencedBy
    dc.relation.requires           = DCTERMS.requires
    dc.relation.replaces           = DCTERMS.replaces
    dc.relation.isreplacedby       = DCTERMS.isReplacedBy
    dc.relation.uri                = DC.relation,DCTERMS.URI
    dc.rights                      = DC.relation
    dc.rights.uri                  = DC.rights,DCTERMS.URI
    dc.source                      = DC.source
    dc.source.uri                  = DC.source,DCTERMS.URI
    dc.subject                     = DC.subject
    dc.subject.ddc                 = DC.subject,DCTERMS.DDC
    dc.subject.lcc                 = DC.subject,DCTERMS.LCC
    dc.subject.lcsh                = DC.subject,DCTERMS.LCSH
    dc.subject.mesh                = DC.subject,DCTERMS.MESH
    dc.title                       = DC.title
    dc.title.alternative           = DCTERMS.alternative
    dc.type                        = DC.type

google-metadata.properties:

google.identifiers.dissertation = dc.type:Thesis
google.identifiers.patent = dc.type:Patent
google.identifiers.technical_report = dc.type:Technical Report

google.citation_title = dc.title
google.citation_publisher = dc.publisher
google.citation_author = dc.author | dc.contributor.author | dc.creator
google.citation_date = dc.date.copyright | dc.date.issued | dc.date.available | dc.date.accessioned
google.citation_language = dc.language.iso
google.citation_pmid =
google.citation_abstract_html_url = $handle
google.citation_fulltext_html_url =
google.citation_pdf_url = $simple-pdf
google.citation_keywords = dc.subject, dc.type

google.citation_journal_title =
google.citation_volume =
google.citation_issue =
google.citation_firstpage =
google.citation_lastpage =
google.citation_doi =
google.citation_issn = dc.identifier.issn
google.citation_isbn = dc.identifier.isbn
google.citation_conference = 

google.citation_dissertation_name = dc.title
google.citation_dissertation_institution = dc.publisher

google.citation_patent_country = 
google.citation_patent_number = 

google.citation_technical_report_number =
google.citation_technical_report_institution = dc.publisher

google.citation.prioritized_types = Adobe PDF, Postscript, Microsoft Word XML, Microsoft Word, RTF, EPUB

in the image this link takes to, it shows how they look like in the page source code. I've hidden the values.

David_cav · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-10T19:27:30.953

In theory, setting the metadata.hide.[metadata schema].[metadata element].[metadata qualifier] = true in dspace.cfg should hide the corresponding metadata field from the mets xml page for non-admin users.

I have tried it on a DSpace 6.3. codebase (https://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/). When opening this page https://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/metadata/handle/10673/7/mets.xml :

As an anonymous user -> I'm not able to see dc.description.provenance which is configured as a "metadata.hide field" in dspace.cfg
As an admin user -> I'm able to see dc.description.provenance

By searching on the Duraspace Jira, I did not find other complains about this issue, except maybe https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3355 .

I did not understand at first that you were referring to the page source code. In the link you provided (view-source:http://demo.dspace.org/jspui/handle/10673/6), I can't find the metadata dc.description.provenance which is configured as a "metadata.hide" metadata.

If you refer to metadata tags like meta name="DC.creator" or meta name="citation_keywords", it might be that the private metadata you are trying to hide has been configured in the metadata which should appear in the HTML head. Please check this documentation : https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Search+Engine+Optimization#SearchEngineOptimization-EnsureItemMetadataappearsintheHTMLHEAD

You might especially want to check if your private metadata has not been defined in one of the following files : [dspace]/config/crosswalks/xhtml-head-item.properties [dspace]/config/crosswalks/google-metadata.properties

Like in this url: demo.dspace.org/jspui/handle/10673/6 If you press ctrl+U in it, you will see it shows the metadata fields. If you have personal details in your metadata fields, it will show them as well. — Dspace-RIUFJF, Oct 10 '19 at 12:01
@Dspace-RIUFJF I have updated my answer based on your last feedback — David_cav, Oct 10 '19 at 19:28
Thnx for the help. I updated my post with the two .properties files, and the fields I'm trying to hide aren't in them. "dc.creator" should refer to the author's name only, but it seems it takes all the other fields that derives from "dc.creator", and the same happens for "dc.contributor". — Dspace-RIUFJF, Oct 15 '19 at 16:18
In the end, the problem was xhtml-head-item.properties, what was happening was: if you have listed a term like dc.creator in it, all terms that start with "dc.creator", like dc.creator.ID, will be listed too. — Dspace-RIUFJF, Oct 24 '19 at 11:38
Thanks for adding this comment. I was actually not aware that qualified fields of the same "main field" listed in xhtml-head-item.properties were also listed, so it's good to know. — David_cav, Oct 25 '19 at 12:44

How can I hide metadata fields in page source code?

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