Jeffery Pomerantz, “Metadata” (MIT, 2015)
Feb 22, 2016•43 min
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Episode description
What is the “stuff” that fuels the information society in which we live? In his new book, Metadata (MIT 2015), information scientist Jeffrey Pomerantz asserts that metadata powers our digital society. After defining metadata-data that has the potential to provide information about an object-Pomerantz considers the various kind of metadata....
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