Metadata : shaping knowledge from antiquity to the semantic web / Richard Gartner.
This book offers a comprehensive guide to the world of metadata, from its origins in the ancient cities of the Middle East, to the Semantic Web of today. 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 met...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Switzerland : Springer, 2016. |
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Table of 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.