“What is Metadata? A Christmas Themed Exploration”
Here’s a timely, interesting, educational, useful, and fun (really!) introduction to metadata from Scientific American.
It was as written by Bonnie Swoger, a sci-tech librarian at SUNY Geneseo.
The article might be a great resource to share at the beginning of a training session or whenever a brief intro to the topic is needed.
Well done Bonnie! Superb!
Direct to Full Text Article: “What is Metadata? A Christmas Themed Exploration”
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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.