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By Jakob Voss

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This book analyzes the methods, technologies, standards, and languages to structure and describe data in their entirety. It reveals common features, hidden assumptions, and ubiquitous patterns among these methods and shows how data are actually structured and described independently from particular trends and technologies.

Examples of data structuring methods analyzed critically include:

Encodings (e.g. Unicode)
Identifiers and Identifier systems (e.g. ISBN)
File systems
Database Systems...

Describing Data Patterns: A general deconstruction of metadata standards

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