Title :
Information ethics in the design, creation and use of metadata
Author_Institution :
Queens Coll., City Univ. of New York, NY, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Technology and Society, 2002. (ISTAS'02). 2002 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Raleigh, NC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7284-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISTAS.2002.1013816
