Metadata Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gartner, Richard (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Subjects:
Information storage and retrieval systems.
Digital humanities.
Library science.
Computer science.
Information Storage and Retrieval.
Digital Humanities.
Library Science.
Computer Science.
Online Access:Texto Completo
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.

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