Metadata for the Information Multiverse

Gilliland, Anne J.; Willer, Mirna

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Title

Metadata for the Information Multiverse

Author(s)

• Gilliland, Anne J.
• Willer, Mirna

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• archival description
• bibliographic description
• information multiverse
• pluralization
• semantic web

Abstract

In today's Information Multiverse there are pressing societal, ethical and educational, as well as intellectual reasons why, rather than simplifying and reducing or streamlining, we should actually be complexifying and increasing our efforts to generate metadata that identifies, collocates, contextualizes, authenticates and enfranchises. Such metadata should not only draw upon, but should also simultaneously incorporate re-thinking of fundamental and long-established bibliographic and archival principles in light of the plural and increasingly post-physical nature of the Information Multiverse. Our ongoing research is modeling an Information Multiverse approach to metadata by identifying ways in which these complexified principles can be embedded in local, community and global (i.e., web) metadata infrastructures. Their underlying references to common concepts additionally open up the possibility of interoperability and re-use, and, outside the silos of professional/information fields, linking and navigation.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47330

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14396

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