http://bookmachine.org/2012/08/29/5-questions-for-ben-goddard-of-little-brown-about-metadata-interview/ We love your books Thu, 16 May 2013 20:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://bookmachine.org/2012/08/29/5-questions-for-ben-goddard-of-little-brown-about-metadata-interview/#comment-292 Ben Goddard Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:11:00 +0000 http://bookmachine.org/?p=4069#comment-292 Hi Marianne, thanks for your question.
Metadata, when referring to books, usually means the information we provide alongside assets to help with identification and discoverability. There are a number of different individual elements to this, including title, author, ISBN, through to description, territory information, keywords and other rights permitted for that asset (for example whether text-to-speech is allowed for an ebook asset). Hope that helps,Ben

]]> http://bookmachine.org/2012/08/29/5-questions-for-ben-goddard-of-little-brown-about-metadata-interview/#comment-289 Marianne Wheelaghan Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:37:00 +0000 http://bookmachine.org/?p=4069#comment-289 I know what metafiction is but I still don’t know what metadata actually is – a concrete example would help. Probably just me missing something obvious, so sorry, but I really would like to know. Thanks.

]]> http://bookmachine.org/2012/08/29/5-questions-for-ben-goddard-of-little-brown-about-metadata-interview/#comment-287 geraldine cooke Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:44:00 +0000 http://bookmachine.org/?p=4069#comment-287 Hi really interesting thank you. I feel more metadata savvy than I did when I got u

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