Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web

by Richard Gartner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319408917
• ISBN13: 9783319408910
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"