The New Work of Composing

Composing with Metadata in Mind

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Author Archive

Synthesis by Matthew W. Wilson
Contingent Narrations of Standards in Flight

How does one practice “Standards in the Making” (SITM)? As Curtis notes, “SITM as a critical practice must inquire into the “work” that description does across information archives.” Certainly, as . . . [read more]

Analysis by Matthew W. Wilson
Decentralizing Folksonomies and Making Standards

As it is currently understood in the GIScience literature, metadata is not equivalent to folksonomic tagging systems. Traditionally, metadata is an “agreed-upon” standard of . . . [read more]

Introduction by Matthew W. Wilson
Considering the Mattering of Metadata in the GIS Classroom

As a standard of documentation, metadata is currently somewhat of an afterthought in the undergraduate geographic information systems (GIS) classroom. GIS curriculum tends towards the . . . [read more]