FA11Q2

Fall 2011 Question 2
2. Metadata plays a crucial role in organizing and representing information resources. In your essay, address the following and provide examples to illustrate your point for each section:

a. What is metadata? (You should go beyond the simplistic definition: “data about data”). b. How is metadata important in information representation and information organization respectively? c. Some metadata schemes are being developed for specific disciplines. Identify a metadata scheme developed for a specific discipline or community and, using this scheme as an example, discuss at least TWO strengths and TWO weaknesses of discipline-specific metadata schemes.

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