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Jeffrey Pomerantz
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Paperback. Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 19 b&w illus. BIC Classification: KJMV3; KJQ; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 12. .
Everything we need to know about metadata, the usually invisible infrastructure for information with which we interact every day. When metadata became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. 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 ... Read more
Everything we need to know about metadata, the usually invisible infrastructure for information with which we interact every day. When metadata became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Essential Knowledge
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262528511
SKU
V9780262528511
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About Jeffrey Pomerantz
Jeffrey 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.
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