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Change and a Future for Metadata

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Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2013)

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Future predictions generally resolve some place between a desired outcome and a predetermined path set by fixed circumstances. This essay explores the future of metadata, recognizing the impossibility of creating a precise road map comingled with the fact that researchers and practitioners do, in fact, have some capacity to impact future plans. We address the unprecedented time in which we live, shaped by the latest networked and technological capacities. Observations presented address the future province of metadata, a role for metadata in addressing grand challenges, and emerging synergistic environments. The conclusion summarizes these observations and confirms the significance of metadata.

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  1. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Jane Greenberg

  2. Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece

    Emmanouel Garoufallou

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  1. Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece

    Emmanouel Garoufallou

  2. School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-3360, Chapel Hill, NC

    Jane Greenberg

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Greenberg, J., Garoufallou, E. (2013). Change and a Future for Metadata. In: Garoufallou, E., Greenberg, J. (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 390. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03437-9_1

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