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By: Jeffrey Pomerantz
Series: The MIT Press essential knowledge series; MIT Press essential knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780262528511
Subjects: Metadata; Information organization
Description: Pomerantz explains what metadata is, and why it exists. He distinguishes among different types of metadata -- descriptive, administrative, structural, preservation, and use -- and examines different users and uses of each type. He discusses the technologies that make modern metadata possible, and he speculates about metadata's future. By the end of the book, readers will see metadata everywhere. Because, Pomerantz warns us, it's metadata's world, and we are just living in it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Definitions; title: Descriptive metadata; title: Administrative metadata; title: Use metadata; title: Enabling technologies for metadata; title: The Semantic Web; title: The future of metadata.