"Metadata" is information about a topic, about where to find information, etc. A point to B which points to C where C is the information you're really looking for, A and B tell you where/how to find it. A and B are metadata.
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"Metadata" is information about a topic, about where to find information, etc. A point to B which points to C where C is the information you're really looking for, A and B tell you where/how to find it. A and B are metadata.
<i>"Metadata" is information about data or other information. "Formal Metadata" is metadata that follows an FGDC approved standard that provides a common set of terminology, definitions, and information about values to be provided. </i>
<i>Formal metadata are formally-structured documentation of digital data products. </i>
<i>They describe the "who, what, where, when, why, and how" of every aspect of the data.</i>
<i>Formal metadata: </i>
<i>help organize and maintain an organization's internal investment in data, provide information to data catalogs and clearinghouses (e.g., USGS GD or National), and provide information to aid data transfers. </i> <i>Metadata should be recorded during data acquisition, processing, and analysis -- when the information needed for metadata is known, not after the fact, when important information may be lost or forgotten. </i>
<i>Other metadata information also occurs in the CMG InfoBank for: navigation, gravity, magnetics, bathymetry, seismic, cameras, crew, geodetic postioning, lines, metering, ports, samples, and stations. </i>
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Few things are truly pure supply and demand. Things like payment for product placement do skewing, for example, by preferentially locating merchandise where customers are most likely to notice, and in larger quantity than pure supply/demand models assume. Decisions by management on what gets to shelves and in what quantities limits the options available to buyers in stores who browse and buy what's in the store... and for someone to order something, they person needs to have an awareness that something to order, actually exists.
That's where the metadata comes in, someone hears about <i>House War</i> by Michelle West and goes looking around to see if the person can find a copy of this book they have heard about.
A whole bunch of enticements are around to get information out about books--sample chapters on-line are one of them, so that someone reading the sample chapters, doesn't have to buy the book to see what it's like. If the person reads the sample chapters and likes them, that's a fairly powerful promotional technique to get someone to chase the book. Also, recommendations in weblogs and otherwise on-line get people informed of books (including what's likely to not appeal to them--that makes for a more efficient market, because fewer books are likely to sell to people who are going to find that the book isn't what they expected and disappointed them. Instead, they can concentrate their attention for tracking down and buying books that seem more interesting/entertaining to them.
I don't understand why more bookstores don't provide customers the ability ti looking up books to get enough information to ask a store clerk if the store has Particular Book or first look on likely shelves--and that stores don't emphasize "if you don't see it here, you can still order it"
I think that best that can be said for certain book business inventory handling and tracking practicis is that tey're baroque. Books aren't laundry detergent and sales techniques for laundry detergent aren't optimal for promoting and selling books. February's book releases not interchangeable with September ones, isn't relevant to laundry detergent sales. If someone finds a detergent brand they like, they tend to stick with it and go looking for it. Books, however, again, are not detergent, and are supposed to be unique... and that makes finding one that came out months before, very difficult. The same thing isn't assured to be there in another six weeks, for books, versus laundry detergent.
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Date: 2006-10-21 05:49 am (UTC)(or, getting horrendously geeky googling...
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<a href="http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/programs/html/definition/fmeta.html>http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/programs/html/definition/fmeta.html</a>
<b>USGS CMG "Formal Metadata" Definition</B>
<i>Introduction</i>
<i>"Metadata" is information about data or other information.
"Formal Metadata" is metadata that follows an FGDC approved standard that provides a common set of terminology, definitions, and information about values to be provided. </i>
<i>Formal metadata are formally-structured documentation of digital data products. </i>
<i>They describe the "who, what, where, when, why, and how" of every aspect of the data.</i>
<i>Formal metadata: </i>
<i>help organize and maintain an organization's internal investment in data,
provide information to data catalogs and clearinghouses (e.g., USGS GD or National), and provide information to aid data transfers. </i>
<i>Metadata should be recorded during data acquisition, processing, and analysis -- when the information needed for metadata is known, not after the fact, when important information may be lost or forgotten. </i>
<i>Other metadata information also occurs in the CMG InfoBank for: navigation, gravity, magnetics, bathymetry, seismic, cameras, crew, geodetic postioning, lines, metering, ports, samples, and stations. </i>
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Few things are truly pure supply and demand. Things like payment for product placement do skewing, for example, by preferentially locating merchandise where customers are most likely to notice, and in larger quantity than pure supply/demand models assume. Decisions by management on what gets to shelves and in what quantities limits the options available to buyers in stores who browse and buy what's in the store... and for someone to order something, they person needs to have an awareness that something to order, actually exists.
That's where the metadata comes in, someone hears about <i>House War</i> by Michelle West and goes looking around to see if the person can find a copy of this book they have heard about.
A whole bunch of enticements are around to get information out about books--sample chapters on-line are one of them, so that someone reading the sample chapters, doesn't have to buy the book to see what it's like. If the person reads the sample chapters and likes them, that's a fairly powerful promotional technique to get someone to chase the book. Also, recommendations in weblogs and otherwise on-line get people informed of books (including what's likely to not appeal to them--that makes for a more efficient market, because fewer books are likely to sell to people who are going to find that the book isn't what they expected and disappointed them. Instead, they can concentrate their attention for tracking down and buying books that seem more interesting/entertaining to them.
I don't understand why more bookstores don't provide customers the ability ti looking up books to get enough information to ask a store clerk if the store has Particular Book or first look on likely shelves--and that stores don't emphasize "if you don't see it here, you can still order it"
I think that best that can be said for certain book business inventory handling and tracking practicis is that tey're baroque. Books aren't laundry detergent and sales techniques for laundry detergent aren't optimal for promoting and selling books. February's book releases not interchangeable with September ones, isn't relevant to laundry detergent sales. If someone finds a detergent brand they like, they tend to stick with it and go looking for it. Books, however, again, are not detergent, and are supposed to be unique... and that makes finding one that came out months before, very difficult. The same thing isn't assured to be there in another six weeks, for books, versus laundry detergent.