Fortunately, if you’ve been following along, you know that computers are exceptionally good at executing tedious tasks just like these. But the process is very tedious, as we’re sure you’ve noticed over the years. Anytime you create a citation, you are just organizing the metadata for an object in an agreed-upon format. The citation is just metadata, organized according to a pre-arranged format: the MLA 7th Edition, in this case. Hopefully you see where we’re heading: that citation is composed of nothing but metadata: “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories. You get the idea.įor a more concrete example relevant to this book, imagine that you were asked by your instructor to write a paper on the Sherlock Holmes story “A Scandal in Bohemia.” You will probably need to include a bibliography. If you look through your phone to see that you have a missed call, you’ll be presented with information about the caller, the call duration, the number, etc. If you go to a store and go to a particular section to grab cereal, metadata about the foods on that aisle has helped organize them and guide you to them. It is all around us, structuring our lives. We’re glad you asked! In fact, metadata is something you deal with all the time. Let’s just pretend you said something on the order of, “metadata is all well and good, but how am I going to use this in my everyday life beyond library searches?” You might be thinking to yourself, “I can’t believe you made me read an entire section on data cleaning.” Sorry you feel that way.
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