How to cite this paper

Renear, Allen H., Richard J. Urban and Karen M. Wickett. “Meditations on the logical form of a metadata record.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011, Montréal, Canada, August 2 - 5, 2011. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 7 (2011). https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol7.Renear01.

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011
August 2 - 5, 2011

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.