Meta

Metastuff

Here I'd like to keep track of visionary stuff that goes beyond the usual pedestrian hey wow, and really addresses "information about the use of information" (Phillips).

Metadata Documentation from Princeton
Meta-Information, The Network of the Future and Intellectual Property Protection (Kenneth L. Phillips)
about Mind Maps
Information Systems Meta-list (pretty computer-specific, but a nice effort to pull together a lot of stuff)
Gödel, Escher, Bach (seems pretty meta to me...)

28 Nov 1999
A specific use for this category: figuring out how we should deal with GIS metadata. I did a quick search via AltaVista and (as usual) found some things I should have known about..., some of which I had encountered a while ago but lost in the complexities of filespace:

Global Information Locator Service (GILS)
Montana State Library GIS Data Dictionary
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Geographic Data Library: Viewable samples and metadata (California)
Alexandria Digital Library Project
Arts and Humanities Data Service: Digital Preservation --a guide to web resources (UK)
Notes on Metadata and the Web
Data Sources on the Internet from UVa
U.S. State and Local GIS Data Resources from UC Berkeley
VCGI Metadata Resources (Vermont Regional Planning Commissions)
Metadata Tools for Geospatial Data (Wisconsin)
Metadata Primer -- A "How To" Guide on Metadata Implementation, by David Hart and Hugh Phillips
NSF Digital Library projects
Frequently-asked questions on FGDC metadata (Peter Schweitzer)

...just a beginning.

29 Nov
the GIS metadata problem: pieces of a solution to how to create and access metadata via ArcView

13 Dec
Keith Belton of SOLINET told me about Florida Data Directoy

21 Dec
A GIS server for ACS institutions?

Florida Metadata Collector Manual