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Why metadata is important; By Gerry McGovern; There is an ongoing reluctance among people who create content for the Web to add appropriate metadata to that content. This reluctance is leading to a situation where much of the Web is sinking in a morass of information overload.
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Metadata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Metadata ( meta data , or sometimes metainformation ) is "data about data", of any sort in any media. Metadata is text, voice, or image that describes what the audience wants or needs to see or e...
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The scientific data collected by a computer system is that system's most important product. For a brief time, data can even stand on its own, without descriptions or context, and provide the desired results. ... Why is metadata important? MMI's work helps build communication and understanding.
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Here are highlights of a panel discussion on metadata presented by the Boston chapter of the Special Librarians Association (S.L.A.), ... What is metadata and why is it a hot topic? A back-of-the-book index and a dictionary are both examples of metadata -- information about information contained in a document or database.
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Another important set of metadata consists of describing user preferences, representing user consumption habits, and defining other information (e.g. demographics models) for targeting a specific audience. The TV-Anytime Metadata Specification also allows describing segmented content.
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The results indicated that metadata do matter. Whether a UHI signal was found depended on the metadata used. One of the reasons is that the UHI signal is very weak. For example, population was able to explain at most only a few percent of the variance in temperature between stations.
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Free GIS data may be accessed from the individual datalayer description (metadata) pages. MassGIS distributes vector data in Shapefile format and raster (image) data in TIFF, MrSID, JPEG 2000 and ERDAS Imagine formats.
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A bit of bad news about Vista if you're a photographer. ... Apparently if you tag a photo's metadata in Vista, it destroys other important metadata used by image editing apps such as Photoshop. Microsoft's gotten reports of RAW files generated by Nikon cameras being unreadable after being tagged with Vista or Microsoft's...
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