All, You may be interested in a very short presentation I gave to a seminar at La Sapienza (the main university in Rome) detailing some of my own discoveries about metadata: what it means to different communities and some of the problems I have experienced. I made it into two parts: First is to explain what I call "BIG" metadata, or the totality of the metadata universe, to give some kind of basic idea of its immensity and a couple of problems adapting to it. The second, is to illuminate a problem I have seen in "metadata" focused on librarians and IT. I offer no solutions, but just to make people aware of some of the problems surrounding the meaning of "metadata". It is in English. http://blog.jweinheimer.net/2014/06/presentation-to-la-sapienza.html -- James Weinheimer weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com First Thus http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/ First Thus Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/FirstThus Cooperative Cataloging Rules http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/ Cataloging Matters Podcasts http://blog.jweinheimer.net/p/cataloging-matters-podcasts.htmlReceived on Mon Jun 09 2014 - 03:53:26 EDT