DataBiosphere · frano-m · May 1, 2026 · May 1, 2026 · May 1, 2026 · May 1, 2026
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ _templates
 # favicons
 /public/favicons/*
 
+# og images
+/public/og/*
+
 /files/**/out/
 
 #Python

diff --git a/...s/BackPage/components/BackPageHero/components/BackPageHeroActions/backPageHeroActions.tsx b/...s/BackPage/components/BackPageHero/components/BackPageHeroActions/backPageHeroActions.tsx
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import {
 import { useConfig } from "@databiosphere/findable-ui/lib/hooks/useConfig";
 import { TYPOGRAPHY_PROPS } from "@databiosphere/findable-ui/lib/styles/common/mui/typography";
 import { JSX } from "react";
-import { SiteConfig } from "../../../../../../../../../site-config/common/entities";
 import { StyledBackPageHeroActions } from "./backPageHeroActions.styles";
 
 export interface BackPageHeroActionsProps {
@@ -21,7 +20,7 @@ export const BackPageHeroActions = ({
   callToActionProps,
   linkProps,
 }: BackPageHeroActionsProps): JSX.Element => {
-  const { config } = useConfig() as { config: SiteConfig };
+  const { config } = useConfig() as { config: { portalURL?: string } };
   const { getURL, label, ...otherProps } = linkProps || {};
   const linkUrl = getURL?.(config.portalURL);
   return (

diff --git a/app/components/common/OgMeta/ogMeta.tsx b/app/components/common/OgMeta/ogMeta.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+import NextHead from "next/head";
+import { useRouter } from "next/router";
+import { JSX } from "react";
+import type { OgMetaProps } from "./types";
+
+/**
+ * Builds the canonical path from the router's asPath, stripping query and hash.
+ * @param asPath - The router's asPath value.
+ * @returns clean path.
+ */
+function buildPath(asPath: string): string {
+  return asPath.split("?")[0].split("#")[0];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Builds the OG title from the page title and app title.
+ * @param appTitle - The application title.
+ * @param pageTitle - The page-specific title.
+ * @returns formatted title.
+ */
+function buildTitle(appTitle: string, pageTitle?: string | null): string {
+  if (pageTitle && pageTitle !== appTitle) {
+    return `${pageTitle} - ${appTitle}`;
+  }
+  return appTitle;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Renders Open Graph and Twitter meta tags for rich link sharing.
+ * @param props - The component props.
+ * @param props.appTitle - The application title.
+ * @param props.browserURL - The site's base URL.
+ * @param props.defaultDescription - Fallback description when no page description is provided.
+ * @param props.pageDescription - Page-specific description.
+ * @param props.pageTitle - Page-specific title.
+ * @returns head element with meta tags.
+ */
+export const OgMeta = ({
+  appTitle,
+  browserURL,
+  defaultDescription,
+  pageDescription,
+  pageTitle,
+}: OgMetaProps): JSX.Element => {
+  const { asPath } = useRouter();
+  const description = pageDescription || defaultDescription;
+  const image = `${browserURL}/og/og-image.png`;
+  const path = buildPath(asPath);
+  const title = buildTitle(appTitle, pageTitle);
+  const url = `${browserURL}${path}`;
+  return (
+    <NextHead>
+      <meta key="description" content={description} name="description" />
+      <meta
+        key="og:description"
+        content={description}
+        property="og:description"
+      />
+      <meta key="og:image" content={image} property="og:image" />
+      <meta key="og:image:height" content="512" property="og:image:height" />
+      <meta key="og:image:width" content="512" property="og:image:width" />
+      <meta key="og:site_name" content={appTitle} property="og:site_name" />
+      <meta key="og:title" content={title} property="og:title" />
+      <meta key="og:type" content="website" property="og:type" />
+      <meta key="og:url" content={url} property="og:url" />
+      <meta key="twitter:card" content="summary" name="twitter:card" />
+      <meta key="twitter:image" content={image} name="twitter:image" />
+    </NextHead>
+  );
+};
diff --git a/app/components/common/OgMeta/types.ts b/app/components/common/OgMeta/types.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+export interface OgMetaProps {
+  appTitle: string;
+  browserURL: string;
+  defaultDescription: string;
+  pageDescription?: string | null;
+  pageTitle?: string | null;
+}
diff --git a/app/config/config.ts b/app/config/config.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 import { setConfig } from "@databiosphere/findable-ui/lib/config/config";
-import { SiteConfig } from "@databiosphere/findable-ui/lib/config/entities";
 import anvilCatalogDev from "../../site-config/anvil-catalog/dev/config";
 import anvilCatalogProd from "../../site-config/anvil-catalog/prod/config";
 import anvilCmgCCDev from "../../site-config/anvil-cmg/cc-dev/config";
 import anvilCmgDev from "../../site-config/anvil-cmg/dev/config";
 import anvilCmgProd from "../../site-config/anvil-cmg/prod/config";
 import anvilCmgTempdev from "../../site-config/anvil-cmg/tempdev/config";
+import { SiteConfig } from "../../site-config/common/entities";
 import hcaDcpCCMaDev from "../../site-config/hca-dcp/cc-ma-dev/config";
 import hcaDcpDev from "../../site-config/hca-dcp/dev/config";
 import hcaDcpMaDev from "../../site-config/hca-dcp/ma-dev/config";

diff --git a/app/content/anvil-cmg/beta-announcement.mdx b/app/content/anvil-cmg/beta-announcement.mdx
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+pageTitle: "Beta Announcement"
+pageDescription: "AnVIL Data Explorer beta launch announcement and new features."
+---
+
 <Breadcrumbs
   breadcrumbs={[
     { path: "/datasets", text: "AnVIL Data Explorer" },

diff --git a/app/content/anvil-cmg/ga-announcement.mdx b/app/content/anvil-cmg/ga-announcement.mdx
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+pageTitle: "GA Announcement"
+pageDescription: "AnVIL Data Explorer general availability announcement."
+---
+
 <Breadcrumbs
   breadcrumbs={[
     { path: "/datasets", text: "AnVIL Data Explorer" },

diff --git a/app/content/anvil-cmg/guides.mdx b/app/content/anvil-cmg/guides.mdx
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+pageTitle: "Guides"
+pageDescription: "Guides for downloading and accessing data from the AnVIL Data Explorer."
+---
+
 <Breadcrumbs
   breadcrumbs={[
     { path: "/datasets", text: "AnVIL Data Explorer" },

diff --git a/app/content/anvil-cmg/guides/data-download-options.mdx b/app/content/anvil-cmg/guides/data-download-options.mdx
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+pageTitle: "Data Download Options"
+pageDescription: "Overview of data download options available in the AnVIL Data Explorer."
+---
+
 <Breadcrumbs
   breadcrumbs={[
     { path: "/datasets", text: "AnVIL Data Explorer" },

diff --git a/app/content/anvil-cmg/guides/data-download-via-curl.mdx b/app/content/anvil-cmg/guides/data-download-via-curl.mdx
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+pageTitle: "Data Download via curl"
+pageDescription: "Download datasets using the curl command line tool."
+---
+
 <Breadcrumbs
   breadcrumbs={[
     { path: "/datasets", text: "AnVIL Data Explorer" },

diff --git a/app/content/anvil-cmg/guides/individual-file-download.mdx b/app/content/anvil-cmg/guides/individual-file-download.mdx
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+pageTitle: "Individual File Download"
+pageDescription: "Download individual files directly from the AnVIL Data Explorer."
+---
+
 <Breadcrumbs
   breadcrumbs={[
     { path: "/datasets", text: "AnVIL Data Explorer" },

diff --git a/app/content/anvil-cmg/guides/tsv-file-manifest-download.mdx b/app/content/anvil-cmg/guides/tsv-file-manifest-download.mdx
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+pageTitle: "TSV File Manifest Download"
+pageDescription: "Export a TSV file manifest with download URLs from the AnVIL Data Explorer."
+---
+
 <Breadcrumbs
   breadcrumbs={[
     { path: "/datasets", text: "AnVIL Data Explorer" },

diff --git a/app/content/anvil-cmg/privacy.mdx b/app/content/anvil-cmg/privacy.mdx
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+pageTitle: "Privacy Policy"
+pageDescription: "Privacy policy for this data explorer."
+---
+
 <Breadcrumbs
   breadcrumbs={[
     { path: "/datasets", text: "AnVIL Data Explorer" },

diff --git a/app/content/anvil-cmg/terms-of-service.mdx b/app/content/anvil-cmg/terms-of-service.mdx
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+pageTitle: "Terms of Service"
+pageDescription: "Terms of service for this data explorer."
+---
+
 <Breadcrumbs
   breadcrumbs={[
     { path: "/datasets", text: "AnVIL Data Explorer" },

diff --git a/app/content/common/contentPages.ts b/app/content/common/contentPages.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import matter from "gray-matter";
 import { GetStaticPropsContext, GetStaticPropsResult } from "next";
 import { serialize } from "next-mdx-remote/serialize";
 import { MDX_SCOPE } from "./constants";
-import { ContentProps } from "./entities";
+import { ContentFrontmatter, ContentProps } from "./entities";
 import {
   getContentPathname,
   getMarkdownPathname,
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ import {
 } from "./utils";
 
 export async function getContentStaticProps(
-  context: GetStaticPropsContext,
-  pageTitle: string
+  context: GetStaticPropsContext
 ): Promise<GetStaticPropsResult<ContentProps>> {
   const slug = getSlug(context);
   const contentPathname = getContentPathname();
@@ -27,7 +26,8 @@ export async function getContentStaticProps(
   }
   const markdownPathname = getMarkdownPathname(contentPathname, slug);
   const markdownWithMeta = fs.readFileSync(markdownPathname, "utf-8");
-  const { content } = matter(markdownWithMeta);
+  const { content, data } = matter(markdownWithMeta);
+  const { pageDescription, pageTitle } = data as ContentFrontmatter;
   const mdxSource = await serialize(content, {
     mdxOptions: {
       development: process.env.NODE_ENV === "development",
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ export async function getContentStaticProps(
     props: {
       layoutStyle: LAYOUT_STYLE_NO_CONTRAST_DEFAULT,
       mdxSource,
+      pageDescription: pageDescription ?? null,
       pageTitle,
       slug,
     },

diff --git a/app/content/common/entities.ts b/app/content/common/entities.ts
@@ -7,9 +7,15 @@ export interface AnchorProps {
   href: string;
 }
 
+export interface ContentFrontmatter {
+  pageDescription?: string;
+  pageTitle: string;
+}
+
 export interface ContentProps {
   layoutStyle?: LayoutStyle;
   mdxSource: MDXRemoteSerializeResult | null;
+  pageDescription?: string | null;
   pageTitle: string;
   slug: string[] | null;
 }
diff --git a/app/content/lungmap/apis.mdx b/app/content/lungmap/apis.mdx
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+pageDescription: "REST API reference for querying LungMAP project, sample, and file metadata."
+pageTitle: "APIs"
+---
+
 <Breadcrumbs
   breadcrumbs={[
     { path: "/projects", text: "LungMAP Data Explorer" },

diff --git a/app/content/lungmap/metadata.mdx b/app/content/lungmap/metadata.mdx
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+pageDescription: "Metadata schema reference for LungMAP projects, based on the HCA Metadata Schema."
+pageTitle: "Metadata Dictionary"
+---
+
 <Breadcrumbs
   breadcrumbs={[
     { path: "/projects", text: "LungMAP Data Explorer" },

diff --git a/app/content/lungmap/privacy.mdx b/app/content/lungmap/privacy.mdx
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+pageDescription: "Privacy notice for the LungMAP Data Browser."
+pageTitle: "Privacy Policy"
+---
+
 <Breadcrumbs
   breadcrumbs={[
     { path: "/projects", text: "LungMAP Data Explorer" },

diff --git a/pages/[entityListType]/[...params].tsx b/pages/[entityListType]/[...params].tsx
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ interface PageUrl extends ParsedUrlQuery {
 export interface EntityDetailPageProps extends AzulEntityStaticResponse {
   entityListType: string;
   override?: Override;
+  pageDescription?: string | null;
+  pageTitle?: string | null;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -264,7 +266,11 @@ export const getStaticProps: GetStaticProps<AzulEntityStaticResponse> = async ({
 
   if (!entityConfig || !entityId) return { notFound: true };
 
-  const props: EntityDetailPageProps = { entityListType };
+  const { label } = entityConfig;
+  const props: EntityDetailPageProps = {
+    entityListType,
+    pageTitle: typeof label === "string" ? label : null,
+  };
 
   // Process entity override props.
   processEntityOverrideProps(entityConfig, entityListType, entityId, props);
@@ -280,13 +286,49 @@ export const getStaticProps: GetStaticProps<AzulEntityStaticResponse> = async ({
     props
   );
 
+  props.pageTitle = buildEntityPageTitle(
+    entityConfig,
+    props.data,
+    entityTab,
+    entityId
+  );
+
   return {
     props,
   };
 };
 
 export default EntityDetailPage;
 
+/**
+ * Builds the entity detail page title from the fetched entity data plus the
+ * active detail tab. Falls back to the entity id when no entity title is
+ * available.
+ * @param entityConfig - Entity config providing getTitle and tab definitions.
+ * @param data - Fetched entity data (may be undefined).
+ * @param entityTab - The active detail tab route.
+ * @param entityId - The entity id used as a fallback when no title is found.
+ * @returns Formatted page title.
+ */
+function buildEntityPageTitle(
+  entityConfig: EntityConfig,
+  data: AzulEntityStaticResponse["data"],
+  entityTab: string | undefined,
+  entityId: string
+): string {
+  const {
+    detail: { tabs },
+    getTitle,
+  } = entityConfig;
+
+  const entityTitle = getTitle?.(data);
+  const { label } = tabs.find(({ route }) => route === entityTab) || {};
+
+  const detailTitle = entityTitle || entityId;
+
+  return typeof label === "string" ? `${label} — ${detailTitle}` : detailTitle;
+}
+
 /**
  * Returns the catalog prefix for the given default catalog.
  * @param defaultCatalog - Default catalog.

diff --git a/pages/[entityListType]/index.tsx b/pages/[entityListType]/index.tsx
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ interface PageUrl extends ParsedUrlQuery {
 
 interface ListPageProps extends AzulEntitiesStaticResponse {
   entityListType: string;
-  pageTitle?: string;
+  pageDescription?: string | null;
+  pageTitle?: string | null;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -98,12 +99,12 @@ export const getStaticProps: GetStaticProps<
   const { exploreMode, label } = entityConfig;
   const { fetchAllEntities } = getEntityService(entityConfig, undefined); // Determine the type of fetch, either from an API endpoint or a TSV.
 
-  let pageTitle;
-  if (typeof label === "string") {
-    pageTitle = label;
-  }
+  const pageTitle = typeof label === "string" ? label : null;
+  const pageDescription = pageTitle
+    ? `Browse and explore ${pageTitle.toLowerCase()}.`
+    : null;
 
-  const props: ListPageProps = { entityListType, pageTitle };
+  const props: ListPageProps = { entityListType, pageDescription, pageTitle };
 
   // Seed database.
   if (exploreMode === EXPLORE_MODE.CS_FETCH_CS_FILTERING) {