Meta--findability: Part 1; In the first of a two-part series, Michael Gould unravels the evolution of metadata, on a quest to separate archiving from discovery.

GEO: connexion, July, 2006 by Gould, Michael

The search engine Google locates the word 'findability' but a word processor does not. The word processor queries an official dictionary, and Google asked the web, the people a fact this article encapsulates. To pursue this difference further, I refer to Peter Morville's "Ambient findability 1", a book which, despite proclivity to techno-jargon, provides a wide range of interesting perspectives on how we live surrounded by information, and also by fun gadgets and services with which to find and consume this information. Much of the book has indirect bearing on our attempt to describe and find geodata resources using metadata. But first, a step back.

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Geo-metadata 1.0

Before delving into the nuances of geo-metadata it is...

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