I think the technical writing community can teach the publishing industry
a lot about metadata, a lot about taxonomies, a lot about the deep information that you have, and the capabilities that you have to draw that information out and to give people more data as they read.
Margaret Harrison [00:02:07] Oh thanks, well so, yeah, I've worked my whole career in publishing and I started out on the ebook side working for OverDrive, a major distributor of ebooks at public libraries, and focusing on ebooks, so much of it is
about the
metadata, not just getting books into channels but also making sure those books, as Justine said, can be discoverable, can be found, and so I started spending a
lot more of my time on
metadata, and I'm a curious person so I got to know a
lot and here I am