Tag Archives: Metadata

Notes from today (3/7) and reading/blogging assignments for Tuesday, March 12

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Anne Leonard

Today we discussed metadata – data about data – as well as taxonomies and folksonomies. Slides from today are available here. If you’re still slightly puzzled by the concepts of metadata and controlled vocabularies, review Badke chapter 4 — it … Continue reading →

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folksonomy

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Robert Taylor

Taxonomy refers to a standard search engine such as Google, which uses search-bots to look for preloaded classification. It uses a more rigid structure when trying acquire the user requested search. It is conindered a more vocabulary base search option. … Continue reading →

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