Balisage Paper: Meditations on the logical form of a metadata record
Allen H. Renear
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Allen H. Renear is the Associate Dean for Research and an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Richard J. Urban
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Karen M. Wickett
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Karen M. Wickett is a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Abstract
What does markup mean? We may have some intuitive sense of the intent when markup uses terminology that looks familiar, but does it really say what we think it does? Looking at a specialized case, metadata, the authors examine the formal logical implications behind seemingly familiar metadata records.