Metadata

Metadata

NISO- Understanding Metadata (pdf) http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf

//Metadata// - structural information that describes, explains, locates or makes it easier to retrieve, use or manage an information resource. Metadata allows similar objects to be placed together. Surrogate records are metadata -- they are based upon different pathways to reach one object (multi-dimensional access).

Nice article sent by Chris Hodge:

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/elings/