Author: Jeffrey Pomerantz –
Publisher: Ascent Audio –
Genre: Professional, Academic –
Overall rating: 5/5 –
Writing, content: 5/5 –
Duration: 5:08 h, medium –
Narrator: Steven Menasche –
Narrator/performance: 4/5 –
Impressions: n/a –
Performance errors: 0/5 –
Complexity/reading level: 4/5 –
Audience: General
Commentary/review
Published in 2015. MIT Essentials series.
The book is about the idea of metadata: its origins in methods used in librarianship and the main conceptual standards for creating metadata for the web. The book has an academic order but is addressed to the general audience. It is, in places, not balanced enough for an unacquainted reader but running certain chapters twice can do the trick. I would rate it as a must read for anyone whose work or interest concern digital databases.
The cover is boring and entirely suitable.
Cover Photo by Eco Warrior Princess on Unsplash