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Metadata! What is it good for? Part 5: Make it your circus

March 5, 2018March 6, 2018

| By Maureen McClarnon | I don’t love a parade (unless it’s a parade of ducklings or goslings or something like that) and I don’t like surprises. (And, as I said in my introductory post, I don’t care for monkeys, either.) Surprises can be good or bad; sometimes what’s supposed to be a good surprise … Read more

Categories Academic, Featured, Public, SchoolsTags metadata, search

Metadata! What is it good for? Part 4: Something Fishy

February 15, 2018February 15, 2018

| By Maureen McClarnon | Worn out by the red-and-pink holiday hype of hearts, chocolates, and diamonds? Are you lovesick, or sick of love? My last post featured this table of indexing terms used to describe a range of emotions: Cure yourself with this poem, from Margaret Atwood: How would you index this? Taken at face … Read more

Categories Academic, Featured, Public, SchoolsTags descriptive metadata, Gale, Gale metadata, index, indexing, metadata, related subjects

Metadata! What is it good for? Part 3: A range of emu-tions

January 26, 2018February 1, 2018

| By Maureen McClarnon | My last post discussed how content receives very basic metadata, and how it gets from the outside world into our systems. But before the customer sees the content, it goes through another step: indexing. But talking about indexing without talking about taxonomies and vocabularies is sort of an emu-and-egg problem. (Why … Read more

Categories Academic, Featured, Public, SchoolsTags capturing metadata, metadata

Metadata! What is it good for? Part 1

January 4, 2018January 4, 2018

| By Maureen McClarnon | Indulge me, for a moment, with my own story about the value of metadata, from way before I worked for Cengage Learning or knew about indexing. This is before I knew what “tagging” meant, or had ever even thought I might go to library school one day. Metadata can do many … Read more

Categories Academic, Featured, Public, SchoolsTags academic, content, Gale, metadata, public, Schools, technology

Finding a Needle in a Data Stack: It’s All about the Metadata

March 24, 2014March 11, 2014

by Ray Bankoski

Thanks to the digital age, we have access to information like never before. Although a single online database may host millions of digital images, users can easily and quickly find the exact piece they need by inputting a simple search term. Well, this process may seem simple to the user, but an incredible amount of work goes into creating the ease of access so many take for granted. This seemingly magical solution is metadata, and it is the key to the world-renown Gale Digital Collections product line produced by Gale, part of Cengage Learning.

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Categories AcademicTags capturing metadata, digitization, document type definition, extensible markup language, metadata, optical character recognition

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