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]
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]
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]