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Wilson A. Bentley snowflake photomicrograph

Photomicrograph by Wilson Bentley. Look closer . . .

Source: http://snowflakebentley.com/

LINKS IN THIS ARTICLE:

Metadata —

American Library Association
Elizabeth Castro's (X)HTML book
EchoEcho website
Getty Museum
Google for Webmasters
MIT Technology Review

Snowflakes —

A Snow Crystal Primer
Jericho Historical Museum
Schwerdtfeger Library

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Example code and tutorials

Bardzell, J. (2003). Creating the presentation layer. In Macromedia Dreamweaver MX dynamic applications (chap. 3). Berkeley, CA: Macromedia Press.

Castro, E. (2003). Getting people to visit. In HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS (chap. 26, pp. 416-421). Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.

Metadata examples in the book are available at http://www.cookwood.com/html5ed/examples/#c26.

EchoEcho. (2001). HTML metatags. Official website. Retrieved July 2, 2005, from http://www.echoecho.com/htmlmetatags.htm

Metadata types and tags for special uses

Baca, M. (Ed.) (1998). Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to digital information. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Information Institute. An official website for this book is available at http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/
standards/intrometadata/

DeCandido, G. A. (1999). Metadata: Always more than you think. Public Library Association. Retrieved July 7, 2005, from http://www.ala.org/ala/pla/plapubs/technotes/
metadata.htm

Google (2005). Google information for webmasters. Official website, retrieved August 14, 2005, from http://www.google.com/webmasters/4.html

Gorman, G. E. (2004). Metadata application and management. International Yearbook of Library and Information Management, 2003-2004. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Hodge, G. E. (2001). Metadata made simpler. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press. Available at http://www.niso.org/news/Metadata_simpler.pdf.

Reviews, commentary, and futures

Hammersley, B. (2003). Richer metadata and RDF. In Content Syndication with RSS (chap. 5, pp. 42-54). San Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.

Lynch, M. (May 2005). Metadata — not just for librarians anymore. EContent 28(5), 31.

Rosenfeld, L. & Morville, P. (2002). Thesauri, controlled vocabularies, and metadata. In Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (chap. 9, pp. 176-208). San Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.

Talbot, D. (July 2005). The fading memory of the state. Retrieved July 16, 2005, from http://www.technologyreview.com/articles
/05/07/issue/feature_memory.asp?p=0

About snowflakes

Snowflake photomicrograph Snowflake photomicrograph

Snowcrystals.com explains snowflake physics. Reprinted by permission until March 1, 2006.

Libbrecht, K. (2005). A snow crystal primer. Official website, retrieved August 15, 2005, from http://snowcrystals.com/

Jericho Historical Society. (2000). Original Wilson Bentley images. Official website, retrieved August 11, 2005, from http://snowflakebentley.com/snowflakes.htm

Don't miss the charming DVD clip at http://vermontsnowflakes.com/simbb.asx.

University of Wisconsin-Madison. (2005). The Bentley Collection. Official website, retrieved August 11, 2005, from http://mail.ssec.wisc.edu/snow/images/aboutbentley.htm