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Milstead, J., & Feldman, S. (1999). Metadata: cataloging by any other
name .... Metadata projects and standars. _Online_ (January 1999).
Retrieved November 3, 2001 from
http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/OL1999/milstead1.html.
Ties in Internet conceptions of metadata with the tasks of librarians
and indexers. Delineates the goals and shortcomings of metadata
schemes. Describes some of the metadata projects (e.g. Dublin Core).
"Metadata acts as a surrogate for a larger whole."
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Compare and contrast metadata (RDF) as described by Berners-Lee with
the strict notions of consistency in metadata in this article.
Google's awesome dominance of the search engine field and their
decision to ignore metadata should be instructive. It seem that the
value of metadata in direct human situations is of limited value (see
my faceted classification discussion under Dillon and Morris).
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