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Revision as of 20:38, 30 October 2006
Definition
From the Wikipedia:Metadata: Metadata (Greek: meta- + Latin: data "information"), literally "data about data", are information about another set of data.
Standards of interest to education
- Languages to create taxonomies
- Bibliographic
- Library standards such as MARC
- Bibliographic Citation standards like APA
- Organizing, describing information
- Information Space standards such as Topic Maps or more sophisticated RDF/OWL based semantic networks
- RSS
- Folksomic (natural) tagging
References
Clay Shirky (2003). The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview, HTML