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Metadata.
This paper discusses the concept of metadata using three essays: Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland?s ?Setting the Stage?; Paul Conway?s ?Preservation in the Digital World?; and Paul Conway?s ?Social Value?.
1,370 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 65.95
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This paper explains that metadata, a term mainly used when discussing information systems and resources, describes the sum total of what a person can say about any information object at any level of aggregation. The author points out that Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland writes in her essay; ?Setting the Stage?; that metadata can be used to describe the three main features of an information object: content, the intrinsic to the information object; context, extrinsic to the object; and structure. The paper relates that Paul Conway shows the concept of metadata is at the center of information management theory and practice, including specifications for the disposition of government archives, the management of book collections, and the maintenance of large-scale information technology systems.
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"If we refer to context, then the example of museum and archival activities is best. Here, metadata takes the form of accession records and catalog records, following certain standards that have been developed throughout time. Following these examples of how metadata is used to describe content and context (further more, the article also brings forth the example of hoe metadata is used in describing an information object?s structure), we can better relate to the definition of metadata as ?data about data? and we can underline one of the main characteristics of metadata: description. Indeed, metadata describes, following certain rules and certain algorithms, a series of other data and information."
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Metadata, 2004.
Discussion of metadata, which can be defined as data about data and which forms the basis for the development of an upcoming Internet technology known as the 'semantic web'.
1,712 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 80.95
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This paper reviews and analyzes two recent Internet-based articles about the future of the semantic web and uses of metadata. Berners-Lee, Hendler, and Lassila's article, "The Semantic Web", and Paul Ford's article, "How Google Beat Amazon and eBay to the Semantic Web", are the articles reviewed within this paper.
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"Simply put, metadata is just data about data. It describes the content, characteristics, and quality of data. For different professional communities, metadata can have different definitions. For example, metadata was first used mostly within communities that manipulated geospatial data, and referred to standards and internal and external documentation and data that were needed to identify, represent, manage, perform and use data in an information system (Gilliland-Swetland)."
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Genetically Modified Food, 2007.
A metadata analysis of the capacity of intensification of agricultural production via genetic engineering to feed a growing population.
16,724 words (approx. 66.9 pages), 19 sources, MLA, AU$ 360.95
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This paper examines the assumption that the gene revolution--represented by the integration of genetic engineering techniques into the field of agriculture--is capable of positively affecting the current human population crisis. The study examines this very ideological assumption that has not largely been challenged in the popular or critical literature on the subject. It then attacks that assumption and illustrates its erroneous base.
Table of Contents:
Chapter One: Introduction and Statement of Problem
1.1 Statement of Problem
1.2 Purpose of the Study
1.3 Importance of the Study
1.4 Scope of the Study
1.5 Rationale of the Study
1.6 Definition of Terms
1.7 Overview of the Study
Chapter Two: Literature Review
2.1 Scope of the Literature Review
2.2 Intensification of Production is Favourable
2.3 Intensification of Production is Unfavourable
Chapter Three: Methodology
3.1 Approach
3.2 Data Gathering Method
3.3 Database of Study
3.4 Validity of Study
3.5 Originality and Limitations
Chapter Four: Data Analysis
Chapter Five: Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations
From the Paper
"In order to fully examine that relationship, it was necessary to critically examine literature, statistics, and historical examples that might shed some light on the relationship that exist between food production and population growth. Additionally, studies were consulted that spoke to the capacity for genetically modified foods to increase agricultural production. In all, the range of information required for this study was significant and at times may have appeared to stray beyond the limited scope of genetically modified food. However, in order to demonstrate the manner by which genetically modified food would have its greatest negative impact upon human societies, it was essential to take a broader look at the role that genetically modified foods have played in the intense push to intensify agricultural production year after year in order to presumably keep up with geometric population growth by always generating more food than is needed."
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