Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web
Gartner, Richard
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Add to basketSold by APJ Horton, London, United Kingdom
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Add to basketviii, 114 pages, colour illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents: What Metadata Is and Why It Matters -- Clay, Goats and Trees: Metadata Before the Byte -- Metadata Becomes Digital -- Metadata as Ideology -- The Ontology of Metadata -- The Taxonomic Urge -- From Hierarchies to Networks -- Breaking the Silos -- Democratizing Metadata -- Knowledge and Uncertainty.
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The author takes us on a journey through the centuries-old history of metadata up to the modern world of crowdsourcing and Google, showing how metadata works and what it is made of. The author explores how it has been used ideologically and how it can never be objective. He argues how central it is to human cultures and the way they develop.
Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web is for all readers with an interest in how we humans organize our knowledge and why this is important. It is suitable for those new to the subject as well as those know its basics. It also makes an excellent introduction for students of information science and librarianship.
Throughout his career, his research has concentrated on metadata, a subject in which he has published widely. He is on the editorial board for METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard), a widely-used metadata standard in digital libraries. He has also maintained a long-term interest in international librarianship, which has taken him in the past to China, Bangladesh, India, Taiwan, Uzbekistan and Armenia amongst other countries.
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