Not exact matches
It's definitely not thought of as one of the sexiest
things about publishing, but
metadata is hugely important.
My
thing is getting that
metadata, that information
about you as an author, who you are, what you're writing, and your books, out there in so many different places that it affects the SEO, it affects search engines, it affects people searching for you, and it's just another way that somebody that might not have seen it will see it.
I'm going to talk
about metadata, foreign markets, cover designers, book promotion, ebook formatting, and a whole slew of other
things that will make you better at the business of self - publishing.
There's 255 million documents in the Fastcase and Docket Alarm databases, and so, we have a ton of information
about judges or law firms or clients, and so armed with the kind of whole legal database of judicial opinions and statutes, all of the motions and pleadings from the Docket Alarm database and then all of the
metadata about filings in PACER, what the pace of
things were, when they happened.
Leehealey maintains that the continued popularity of the legacy software north of the border is largely due to the fact that images of electronic documents are still acceptable in Canadian jurisdictions, whereas Americans have stricter standards with regard to the use of native document formats that contain
metadata (information
about such
things as when and by whom the document was created, copied, or accessed).
Legalcite, if the draft proposal is approved, will come up with a «tagging model» that would let content producers affix a variety of
metadata to a case or statute citation in such a way that a computer could, first, recognize that the citation was just that: a legal citation; and then «understand» a number of
things about that citation.
And the taxonomy piece would, I imagine, be useful for lawyers to read where the firm is
about to introduce knowledge or document management and the subject of
metadata comes up; it makes fairly clear the fact that not just anybody can or should fling down a taxonomy and that such
things are best left to trained pros.
The great
thing about HDHomeRun is that while it uses a web connection for
things like
metadata and artwork, the heavy lifting is all done over your local network.