Category Archives: Metadata
Geoff Nunberg on Google Books metadata
Linguist Geoff Nunberg comments on the poor general quality of metadata in Google Books, and why that’s a problem. It’s a tough problem: if you do things (like scanning entire libraries) at Google-scale, you just can’t pay attention to the … Continue reading →
Chris Anderson: One size metadata doesn’t fit all
Misfits of Metadata Chris Anderson of The Long Tail has an important post about how the metadata used in some music-listening applications doesn’t satisfy the listeners needs: [...] classical is a genre that the one-size-fits-all music aggregators such as iTunes … Continue reading →
Should metadata be stored in the file it describes? Jon Udell wonders…
In “Who’s got the tag? Database truth versus file truth, part 3″, Jon Udell contrasts the Microsoft Vista and Mac OS X ways of associating metadata tags with image files: Vista tends to store them into the image files, and … Continue reading →
Metadata Drift
Mark Dominus has an interesting post in which he does some serious software archaeology trying to discover how and when a piece of Unix filesystem metadata called “ctime” changed from being “creation time” to representing “change time”. Mark’s post got … Continue reading →