commission on cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences metadata as infrastructure,...
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Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Metadata as Infrastructure, Interoperability, and the Larger Context
Michael Buckland,Emer. Prof., School of Information Management & Systems,
Co-Director, Electronic Cultural Atlas InitiativeUniversity of California, Berkeley
[email protected], August 21, 2004.
Metadata as Infrastructure
Example: Moving between two media types, both digital.
Text
Social datasets
It is difficult to move between different kinds of document: e.g. Dataset of social statistics and passages of text.You cannot use text to search among numbers -- or numbers to search texts.
Text TOPIC LIST
Captions Social datasets
Different media types on the same topic can be linked indirectly via topical metadata, but in this case you need to specify place also.
Text TOPIC LIST
Maps GAZETTEER Captions Social datasets
Normalizing place names requires a gazetteer -- and latitude and longitude allow points on maps.But the time period is also needs to be specified . . .
Text TOPIC LIST
Maps GAZETTEER Captions Social datasets
TIME PERIOD DIRECTORY Timeline ChronologySo, normalize time terminology and calendar.
BIOG. DICT. Text TOPIC LIST
Maps GAZETTEER Captions Social datasets
TIME PERIOD DIRECTORY Timeline ChronologySimilarly with personal names . . . etc.
BIOG. DICT. 2 BIOG. DICT. TOPIC LIST 3
Text 2 TOPIC LIST 2Text TOPIC LIST
Maps GAZETTEER Captions Social GAZETTEER 2 etc datasets GAZETTEER 3
TIME PERIOD DIRECTORY Time line TIME PERIOD DIRECTORY 2 Chronology TIME PERIOD DIRECTORY 3 Metadata constitutes a form of infrastructure
Spatio-Temporal Interoperability Examples
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