Ode to the Z39 - Part 1

In this episode I invited David Riecks to discuss embedded photo metadata. He tells me about his experience in going from applying metadata to an accompanying database, to embedding it in the file itself, but then how ultimately, his philosophy is that, it is not whether to do one or the other, but to do both.Originally published 2019-12

Today I speak with David Ho and Lori Baluta about their incredible personal digital and physical asset collections. They talk about their methods of acquisition, storage, preservation, organization and tagging.Originally published 2019-11

(Part 2 of 2) If you need to create controlled vocabularies and you have never yet met the ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (R2010O Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies, then prepare to fall in love. This monster of a guidebook will become your forever reference for building controlled vocabularies for whatever it is that you're trying to describe.Originally published 2019-10

If you need to create controlled vocabularies and you have never yet met the ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (R2010O Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies, then prepare to fall in love. This monster of a guidebook will become your forever reference for building controlled vocabularies for whatever it is that you're trying to describe.Originally published 2019-10

Today I spoke to Lisa Grimm - Taxonomy, Metadata and Digital Asset Management extraordinaire, and exceedingly compelling story teller. We discuss industry standards, keeping end users compliant who apply metadata, and what is - and what to do about - a metadata emergency.Originally published 2019-10

The last episode in our Semantics series goes in-depth into RDF, SPARQL, SKOS and Triples, explaining how these, combined with microdata as found on Schema.org and other open linked data sources, provide the semantic context to help computers "understand" what is being described on a web page.Originally published 2019-09

The second episode in our Semantics series covers the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Unique Resource Identifiers (URIs) and uses a roast chicken search result from AllRecipes to show how semantic wrappers really improve the search experience.Originally published 2019-09

The semantic web is an unrealized vision for the World Wide Web cooked up by the web's creator Tim Berners-Lee. You may have begun to hear about it in the last ten years, but it has been part of the vision for even longer than that. The semantic web is the web that allows computers to process information with context without the need for human intervention. But it's hard to talk about semantic details without talking about some of the history of the web. That is what this episode is all about, the history of HTTP, HTML and its use of the internet to create the World Wide Web.Originally published 2019-08

Metadata is all around us in our everyday lives, churning the machine of e-commerce, marketing, and even some unexpected activities like architecture and grocery shopping. This episode covers some of the ways in which metadata pervades our daily lives and just about everything that we do. Perhaps after listening you will look around yourself and be better able to see all the ways that metadata touches your life day after day.Originally published 2019-08

Standards are the essence of metadata, and control is at the heart of standardization. This episode offers an analogy to our everyday lives explaining why standardization and control is so important to successful growth and development. You'll also hear about some of the existing industry standards in use today, and how they might be mapped to one another to create coherence between multiple standards.Originally published 2019-07