Metadata

by Jeffrey Pomerantz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262528517
• ISBN13: 9780262528511
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher