Glossary

Metadata

Published June 21 2024 | Revised September 25 2024

Metadata

Peripheral information about an object, in this case a book. For instance, author, affiliation, title, date published, publisher, ISBN, licence are all pieces of metadata pertaining to a book (Eve, 2014). See also Persistent Identifier (PID).

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Digital and print publication

Metadata