Metadata

Draft

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 for objects like web pages or learning objects

• Dublin Core
• Learning Object Metadata Standard

Bibliographic

• Library standards such as MARC
• Bibliographic Citation standards like APA (see also reference managers)

Organizing, describing information

• Information Space standards such as Topic maps or more sophisticated RDF/OWL based semantic networks
• RSS

Folksomic (natural) tagging

• See tagging and tag cloud

References

Clay Shirky (2003). The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview, HTML