{"id":1966,"date":"2010-10-21T17:22:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T22:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2010-10-21T17:24:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T22:24:53","slug":"metadata-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/metadata-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Metadata Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, like I said, I’m at a metadata conference, and the picture below is kind of a metadata conundrum. Metadata is descriptions of information resources – “structured data about data”<\/a>. The picture is actually a lot of different things, many of which are hard to convey, especially because one of the key interpreters of metadata now is computers – search engines – which are much more literal than humans; they do not do nuance at all well.<\/p>\n

Here’s a list of all the things that picture is – or at least all the ones I can think of in 5 minutes:<\/p>\n

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  1. digital image – and not just any digital image, it’s an iPhone polaroid, which is a mimicking of an old technology with a new<\/li>\n
  2. button on a pop machine<\/li>\n
  3. picture of an American Indian, or Native American<\/li>\n
  4. Chief<\/li>\n
  5. brand name of soda pop – carbonated beverage<\/li>\n
  6. racist<\/li>\n
  7. misspelled<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \"\"<\/a>

    Button to select red pop, on the 7UP machine, 8th floor landing<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So, like I said, I’m at a metadata conference, and the picture below is kind of a metadata conundrum. Metadata is descriptions of information resources – “structured data about data”. The picture is actually a lot of different things, many of which are hard to convey, especially because one of the key interpreters of metadata […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132,157,42],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-library-conferences","tag-metadata","tag-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}