If you want to go more deeply into "where did XML come from", you can
find some of the intellectual background in these two articles:
Coombs, James H., Allen Renear, and Steven J. DeRose. “Markup Systems
and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing”.Communications of the
Association for Computing Machinery 30, no. 11 (November 1987):
933-947,http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/32206.32209.
DeRose, Steve, David Durand, Elli Mylonas, and Allen Renear. “What is
Text, Really?” Journal of Computing in Higher Education 21, no. 3
(August 1997): 1-24, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/264842.264843.
-Tod
Tod Olson <tod_at_uchicago.edu>
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
On Sep 20, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Robb Mullins wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for resources that explain who developed different types
> of metadata and why. Individuals and organizations.
> For example,
> XML -- Where did it come from? Why? Why was it needed? Who
> developed it? Is there anything about that development that a
> librarian needs to be aware of today?
>
> Basic stuff. For a beginning librarian.
> I'm looking for any resources. Online, books, etc.
> Simple is good though. This is beginner level material so it
> doesn't need to be the elaborate history. A page of text is
> probably more than I need.
> What types of metadata? Any. All. The most used, most known.
> AACR2, MARC, html, XML, Dublin Core, etc, etc, etc.
> Brief, simple, but wide for types of metadata.
>
> Any ideas?
> I'm just beginning to search. A scholarly "Intro to Metadata for
> Dummies," one book that covers each type of metadata in a simple
> format... I'm hoping to find a book or website like that. But
> schoarly of course. An expert in metadata who wrote one book for
> beginners would be great.
> Viele Danke. :)
Received on Mon Sep 22 2008 - 17:26:08 EDT