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Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web
Richard B. Gartner
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Description for Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web
Paperback. Num Pages: 122 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 28 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: UNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
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 metadata works and what it is made of. The author explores how it has been used ideologically and how it can never be objective. He argues how central it is to human cultures and the way they develop. Metadata: Shaping ... Read more
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 metadata works and what it is made of. The author explores how it has been used ideologically and how it can never be objective. He argues how central it is to human cultures and the way they develop. Metadata: Shaping ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
204g
Number of Pages
114
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319408910
SKU
V9783319408910
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99-15
About Richard B. Gartner
Richard Gartner is a librarian and academic who has specialised in the field of metadata and digital libraries for over twenty years. He is currently the Digital Librarian at the Warburg Institute in London. Previously, he was for sixteen years the New Media Librarian for the Bodleian Library in Oxford, where he was responsible for the introduction of the Internet ... Read more
Reviews for Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web
In Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web, Gartner, the digital librarian at the Warburg Institute at the University of London, thoroughly covers not only the history of metadata, but how it affects and forms knowledge and culture. ... The author concludes the work with recent advances in metadata creation-metadata produced via Web 2.0, crowdsourcing, and folksonomies. This ... Read more