Online discussion questions – Day 4 (Jan 21) – Data and Metadata
What would be the examples of metadata around us? (other than the ones we discussed in class)
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The daily usage of technology enables us to be surrounded by metadata every day. An example would be the music that is downloaded and distributed to personal devices.When audio went from analogue to digital, it became possible to label or encode audio files with more information than could be contained in just the file name. Metadata can be used to name, describe, organize and indicate ownership or copyright for a digital audio file, and make it easier to locate a specific audio file within a group. Also, another example would be the HTML tags that are used in URL’s that help search engines access metadata to find information efficiently and effectively, similar to the encoding of audiofiles.
An example of metadata would be a digital picture. Now with increasing technology when you upload a digital picture it can give you much more information than just the image. Technology has evolved so that a picture can tell you exactly the time and date it was taken. Also it can tell you the location and with facial recognition who is in the picture. Additionally, the resolution and type of camera it was taken with. Whether the picture was taken using zoom or a specific setting. Metadata is all around us in various ways.
The title page of a book can serve as an example of metadata. The title page of a book can indicate what year and which location the book has been published. Also, the title page can provide the name of the author(s) and/or translators as well as information about the company that published the book. The title page takes all the information and organizes into a useful and meaningful way for the reader to understand.
The ESPN website is an example of metadata. As soon as the website comes on there is a lot of data. There are news headlines of what has happened in sports. On the top are the scores of the games, and the website specifically labels each sport. You can click on a particular score of a game and it will tell how where the game is played, how much time is left in the game, and who is playing in the game. For a specific example such as a basketball game, ESPN will categorize the players stats such as points, rebounds, and assists among others.
A persons drivers license contains metadata. It lists the persons name so you know who they are. Their address so you know where they live, date of birth so you know how old they are, height so you know how tall they are, sex so you know what gender they are, eye color so you know what color their eyes are, and vehicle class so you know what kind of vhiecle they can drive. .
A score of music is covered in meta data. On the first page you will find the title, composer, year it was written, and if applicable, who wrote the text. On the inside cover there is sometimes even more information that may include where the piece was written, why it was written, and who it was written for.
the new york stock exchange could be seen as meta data. Different analysts create profiles for stocks with what price it is currently being sold at, its stock price over time, what company is selling it, how many shares have been sold.
I think that the name of each building’s on campus is a meta data. It is because each hall describes which major department belongs to what kind of classes are held in. For example, a lot of classes relevant to Liberal Arts are provided with students at the Anderson Hall and all major departments in the Fox Business School are in the Alter Hall.
The menu of Starbucks can be a matadata. It has different categories of coffee. By looking through the menu, customers can select the type of coffee that they want. Also, menu has the price, the ingredient and the nutrition information about the coffee, which are also useful for customers.
A passport would be an example of metadata. The passport contains a lot of personal information about the holder such as their name, birth date, place of birth, and their passport number. The stamps show all the different places they’ve visited using that passport.
An example of metadata that can be seen around us would be a music album. A music album has various examples of metadata. For instance, artists on the track, track number, track length, producer, etc., are all examples of metadata.
Since I am an avid sports fan, the clearest example of metadata around us is the ESPN website. The ESPN website contains a large amount of information and it is all broken down and organized into separate organized locations on the website. Then from there, many things are broken down into subcategories, such as an article involving basketball will first be put in the basketball category, before being put into either NBA or College Basketball. From there, it will be put on to the team that is mentioned in the article’s web page.
On a basketball page, there is a large amount of data such as: blocks, rebounds, steals, assists, turnovers, shooting percentages, and per game averages.
An example of metadata around us could be our driver’s licenses. This is so because of all the data featured on the one piece of plastic that we all carry around in our wallets. On the card we have access to the full name, date of birth, eye color, height, driver’s license number, and a few other important points of data.
Metadata summarizes basic information about data, which can make finding and working with particular instances of data easier. For example, date created and date modified and file size are examples of very basic document metadata.