Metadata (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (606 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262528517 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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We interact with it or generate it every day. When metadata does its job well, it fades into the background; everyone (except perhaps the NSA) takes it for granted.Pomerantz explains what metadata is, and why it exists. For example, the title, the author, and the cover art are metadata about a book. Because, Pomerantz warns us, it's metadata's world, and we are just living in it.. It is not, Pomerantz tell us, just "data about data." It is a means by which the complexity of an object is represented in a simpler form. He discusses the technologies that make modern metadata possible, and he speculates about metadata's future. He distinguishes among different types of metadata -- descriptive, administrative, structural, preservation, and use -- and examines different users and uses of each type. By the end of the book, readers will see metadata everywhere. In the era of ubiquitous computing, metadata has become infrastructural, like the electrical grid or the highway system. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone calls -- information about the caller, the recipient, the time, the duration, the location -- and not recordings of the conversations themselves? Or does phone call metadata reveal more than it seems? In this book, Jeffrey Pomerantz offers an accessible and concise introduction to metadata. When "metadata" became breaking news, app
About the AuthorJeffrey Pomerantz is an information scientist. He was most recently Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he developed and taught the MOOC "Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information," and a Visiting Professor at the University of Washington.
He was most recently Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he developed and taught the MOOC "Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information," and a Visiting Professor at the University of Washington.. Jeffrey Pomerantz is an information sc
"Five Stars" according to Robert J.Rudick. Excellent Service. Great Biik.. "Great Introduction to a Rarely-Discussed Topic (Review by Ryan Mease)" according to Ryan Mease. This book is precisely what it needs to be: a concise but thoughtful introduction to the use of metadata as both a historical phenomenon and modern megaphenomenon. Metadata are supremely important in the world of big data, and Pomerantz does an effective job of selling the reader on their value. He is also careful to parse a wider definition of metadata than 'phone records,' showing where it can be used in less political applications like library of congress records or book jackets. This is also a kind oblique introduction to library and information science, insofar as Pomerantz a