• DocumentCode
    1874620
  • Title

    Information ethics in the design, creation and use of metadata

  • Author

    Brody, Roberta

  • Author_Institution
    Queens Coll., City Univ. of New York, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Firstpage
    197
  • Lastpage
    201
  • Abstract
    Just as information contains the explicit and implicit values of its creators, so does the metadata that represents these objects. This paper discusses issues of fair representation in the ethical design, creation and use of metadata, data about data. Ethical issues arise in the planned design of metadata, the creation of surrogates as representative of data or text, as well as in the use and ownership of the metadata in electronic environments
  • Keywords
    data analysis; information use; meta data; professional aspects; electronic environments; ethical creation; ethical design; ethical use; information ethics; metadata; surrogates; Assembly; Educational institutions; Ethics; Information retrieval; Information systems; Music information retrieval; Real time systems; Spatial databases; Thesauri; Vocabulary;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Technology and Society, 2002. (ISTAS'02). 2002 International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Raleigh, NC
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7284-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISTAS.2002.1013816
  • Filename
    1013816