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The concept and practice of content management. Metadata. I Never Meta Tag I Didn’t Like. The word meta Text and context (meta text) The thing itself vs its surroundings What you need beside it to understand it What’s not there Remember the power of the name

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  1. The concept and practice of content management Metadata

  2. I Never Meta Tag I Didn’t Like • The word meta • Text and context (meta text) • The thing itself vs its surroundings • What you need beside it to understand it • What’s not there • Remember the power of the name • Depends on where you are standing • Metadata is context made explicit!

  3. A Meta Taxonomy • Format • Structure • Management • Inclusion

  4. Structure Meta • Segmentation (componentization) • Elementation • Hierarchy • Index • Associations • Browse Order

  5. Format Meta • Of What? • Presentation • Layout • File structure • Applied to what? • Character • Paragraph • Section • File

  6. Management Meta • IDs • Author • Create date • Status • Statistics • Version • Process association

  7. Inclusion Meta • Objects • Scripts • Files • Shapes • AutoText

  8. Who’s Got the Meta? • Reference/Referent • Internal Meta • External Meta

  9. Examples of Metadata • Field names in a database • Punctuation • Tagging • Format • Structure and relationship • XML or any ML

  10. Meta Philosophy • We ascend a synthetic ladder each level transcending the prior • At each level we add context around and context next to • At each level there is a relationship between parts not just parts • Irreducibility of a pub to its components • Its Turtles All the Way Down

  11. Components and Metadata Components can have: • Structural metadata within and between them • Segmentation is the component • TOC, etc can be inside the component too. • Format metadata within them • Or structural metadata that later is transformed into format • Management metadata • Inclusion metadata

  12. Where is the Metadata? • What is content and what is metadata? • Metadata stored with the component • Metadata that is always the same • Outside the component

  13. Management elements Status Title Create Date Author Summary Detail

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