Category Archives: Metadata

Talk: Metadata and Search

Posted on August 8, 2013 by David Ainsworth

Metadata provides structure and organization, both enabling and constraining searches, Big Data analysis and the use of other tools to look at what it tags. It’s sometimes invisible to users, often ignored by them in any case, and yet can … Continue reading →

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Metadata ownership, transparency, and privacy

Posted on August 7, 2013 by jtfburgess

As recent massive leaks of classified data by NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed, the U.S. government is taking advantage of previous court rulings that metadata shared with a third party carries no reasonable expectation of privacy to conduct upstream taps … Continue reading →

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Talk & Teach: My sometimes friend the database

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Holland Hopson

Databases are my friends. Every application that I use and care about has a database built into it somewhere: digital audio workstation, video editor, address book, calendar, to-do list (don’t forget online shopping…). Important research is predicated on the analysis … Continue reading →

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Library Science theory and the Humanities

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Nathan Humpal

I’m interested in discussing how Library Science’s bibliographic theories intersect with the Humanities’ conception of creative works. In particular I would like to examine Library Science’s FRBR concept in this light. FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) is a conceptual … Continue reading →

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