Metadata Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gartner, Richard (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Θέματα: Computer science.; Library science.; Information storage and retrieval.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; Library Science.; Popular Computer Science.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.