Metadata

Metadata is a way to index and control data, information, and knowledge. According to Biblink, "[Metadata is] information about a publication as opposed to the content of the publication; [it] includes not only [a] bibliographic description but also other relevant information such as its subject, price, conditions of use, etc" (qtd. in Smits 305). There are different types of metadata such as administrative, structural, and descriptive. Administrative functions with workflow, structural helps single source publishing, and descriptive helps access and use (Morville 125).

Gen. Michael V. Hayden stated, "We kill people based on metadata" (Johns Hopkins University, 2014) (17:59)

Johns Hopkins University. (2014, Apr. 7). The Johns Hopkins foreign affairs symposium presents: The Price of privacy: Re-Evaluating the NSA. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV2HDM86XgI

Morville, Peter. Ambient Findability. Sebastopol: O'Reilly, 2005. Print.

Smits, Jan. "Metadata: An Introduction." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 27.3-4 (1999): 303-19. Taylor Francis Online. Web. 19 Apr. 2014.