From Hierarchies to Networks
This chapter highlights moves away from the strict hierarchies of traditional taxonomy to models where metadata is viewed more as a network. Facetted classification, proposed by the Indian librarian S.R. Ranganathan in the 1930s, offers a new way for simp
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Metadata Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web
Metadata
Richard Gartner
Metadata Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web
Richard Gartner The Warburg Institute University of London London, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-40891-0 ISBN 978-3-319-40893-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40893-4
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Acknowledgements
Many friends and colleagues past and present have helped me build up my understanding of metadata over the years – too many to list separately. But I would like to give special thanks to those who have provided such helpful feedback on my initial proposal and an early draft of this book: Sheila Anderson, Sarah Bakewell, Tobias Blanke, Jonathan Blaney, Anna Jordanous and Gareth Knight – thank you. I would also thank those who have so generously given their permission to reproduce their works in this volume: Michael Bergman, John Blyberg, the British Library, CERN, King’s College London Library, the National Film Board of Canada, the National Library of Australia, Jenn Riley, Tim Watts and the Zooniverse project. Thanks are also due to those who have generously made their works available under Creative Commons or other open licences to allow their reproduction here: Markus Angermeier, Christian Bizer, Luca Cremonini, Richard Cyganiak, Mark Doliner, the Education Resources Information Center, Anja Jentzsch, Montréalais, Aaron Rotenberg, Max Schmachtenberg, Daniel R. Strebe, the Wikimedia Foundation, George H. Williams and Richard H. Zander. I would also like to thank Beverley Ford, James Robinson and S. Madhuriba at Springer for guiding me from initial proposal to publication with such smooth efficiency. And finally more than mere thanks are due to Elis
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