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by Jeffrey Pomerantz
Steven Menasche
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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 this book, Jeffrey Pomerantz offers an accessible and concise introduction to metadata. In the era of ubiquitous computing, metadata has become infrastructural, like the electrical grid or the highway system. We interact with it or generate it every day. It is not, Pomerantz tell us, just "data about data." It is a means by which the complexity of an object is represented in a simpler form. For example, the title, the author, and the cover art are metadata about a book. When metadata does its job well, it fades into the background; everyone (except perhaps the NSA) takes it for granted. Pomerantz explains what metadata is, and why it exists. He distinguishes among different types of metadata — descriptive, administrative, structural, preservation, and use — and examines different users and uses of each type. He discusses the technologies that make modern metadata possible, and he speculates about metadata's future. By the end of the book, readers will see metadata everywhere. Because, Pomerantz warns us, it's metadata's world, and we are just living in it.
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Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge Publisher: Ascent Audio Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781469094663
  • File size: 148075 KB
  • Release date: November 1, 2015
  • Duration: 05:08:29

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  • ISBN: 9781469094663
  • File size: 148093 KB
  • Release date: November 1, 2015
  • Duration: 05:11:29
  • Number of parts: 5

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Business Sociology Nonfiction

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English

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 this book, Jeffrey Pomerantz offers an accessible and concise introduction to metadata. In the era of ubiquitous computing, metadata has become infrastructural, like the electrical grid or the highway system. We interact with it or generate it every day. It is not, Pomerantz tell us, just "data about data." It is a means by which the complexity of an object is represented in a simpler form. For example, the title, the author, and the cover art are metadata about a book. When metadata does its job well, it fades into the background; everyone (except perhaps the NSA) takes it for granted. Pomerantz explains what metadata is, and why it exists. He distinguishes among different types of metadata — descriptive, administrative, structural, preservation, and use — and examines different users and uses of each type. He discusses the technologies that make modern metadata possible, and he speculates about metadata's future. By the end of the book, readers will see metadata everywhere. Because, Pomerantz warns us, it's metadata's world, and we are just living in it.
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Business Sociology Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Ascent Audio
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781469094663
    File size: 148075 KB
    Release date: November 1, 2015
    Duration: 05:08:29

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781469094663
    File size: 148093 KB
    Release date: November 1, 2015
    Duration: 05:11:29
    Number of parts: 5

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    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English