1. 1 @urbanmapping Metadata Matters Ian White September 5, 2013

2. 2 @urbanmapping Achtung! NoSQL is no panacea Big Data isnt about data Big Data isnt new Big Data doesnt present a Boolean quandary With power comes responsibility AWS bills Lady Gaga tweets -Innumeracy (correlation v causation)

3. 3 @urbanmapping One Persons Metadata is Another Persons Data

4. 4 @urbanmapping Big v Important Big Heterogeneous Raw Distributed Streaming/real time Search for meaning Time-sensitive Philosophical Important Well-defined schema High value (not free) Test-driven Relational Historical Enterprise-focused

5. 5 @urbanmapping Data Exhaust Analytics Probes Social Media Gov2.0

6. 6 @urbanmapping Platforms Commoditization of compute and storage

7. 7 @urbanmapping A Brief History of Metadata Callimachus Library of Alexandria, Egypt

8. 8 @urbanmapping A Brief History of Metadata Pinakes (lists) Title Category Author Author birthplace Father Word count Callimachus

9. 9 @urbanmapping A Brief History of Metadata Johan van der Does Leiden University, 1595

10. 10 @urbanmapping A Brief History of Metadata Melville Dewey

11. 11 @urbanmapping A Brief History of Metadata Card catalog room, Library of Congress c. 1920

12. 12 @urbanmapping A Brief History of Metadata Dewey Decimal System goes electronic in 1967

13. 13 @urbanmapping Out with the Old, in with the New Archiving card catalogs after digitization

14. 14 @urbanmapping Why Cant We Be Together? MetadataData

15. 15 @urbanmapping Exponential Growth in Data Unprecedented rate of data creation, 1995- today 1876 Taxonomy Pinakes 300 BC Database 1970 Catalog 1595 AD Volume of Data Generated

16. 16 @urbanmapping Oh, How Ive Missed You! The reunification of metadata with data

17. 17 @urbanmapping Together At Last!

18. 18 @urbanmapping GIS Remains Unevolved += Melville Dewey

19. 19 @urbanmapping Enter the Data Curator Part social scientist, part librarian, part statistician, part RDBMS wiz

20. 20 @urbanmapping DIKW Model Data Fact, Signal, Symbol Information Structural v Functional Symbolic v Subjective Knowledge Processed Procedural Propositional

21. 21 @urbanmapping Popularity Contest Metadata Big Data Data Science Curation

22. 22 @urbanmapping c.2013

23. 23 @urbanmapping One Persons Metadata is Anothers Data