diff --git a/web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/components/utility/UtilityDirective.js b/web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/components/utility/UtilityDirective.js
index c3dcf36632d..aecb4b99615 100644
--- a/web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/components/utility/UtilityDirective.js
+++ b/web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/components/utility/UtilityDirective.js
@@ -2220,6 +2220,7 @@
       };
     }
   ]);
+
   module.filter("signInLink", [
     "$location",
     "$filter",
@@ -2233,6 +2234,23 @@
       };
     }
   ]);
+
+  module.filter("isHtml", [
+    "$location",
+    "$filter",
+    function ($location, $filter) {
+      return function (str) {
+        var a = new DOMParser().parseFromString(str, "text/html");
+
+        for (var c = a.body.childNodes, i = c.length; i--; ) {
+          if (c[i].nodeType == 1) return true;
+        }
+
+        return false;
+      };
+    }
+  ]);
+
   module.filter("getMailDomain", [
     function () {
       return function (mail) {
diff --git a/web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/views/default/templates/recordView/title.html b/web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/views/default/templates/recordView/title.html
index 19e4a0e71ca..d96f9a6eb5d 100644
--- a/web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/views/default/templates/recordView/title.html
+++ b/web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/views/default/templates/recordView/title.html
@@ -42,5 +42,12 @@ <h1 class="gn-break">
     data-types="parent"
   ></div>
 
-  <p data-ng-bind-html="(mdView.current.record.resourceAbstract) | linky | newlines"></p>
+  <p
+    data-ng-if="mdView.current.record.resourceAbstract | isHtml"
+    data-ng-bind-html="mdView.current.record.resourceAbstract"
+  ></p>
+  <p
+    data-ng-if="!(mdView.current.record.resourceAbstract | isHtml)"
+    data-ng-bind-html="(mdView.current.record.resourceAbstract) | linky | newlines"
+  ></p>
 </div>