“For scholars looking for a particular edition of Leaves of Grass, say, it doesn't do a lot of good just to enter "I contain multitudes" in the search box and hope for the best. Ditto for someone who wants to look at early-19th century French editions of Le Contrat Social, or to linguists, historians…”— Geoff Nunberg, languagelog.ldc.upenn.eduTagged: Metadata Metadata, Without the Metadata You Can't Query
“But to answer those questions you need good metadata.”— Geoff Nunberg, languagelog.ldc.upenn.eduTagged: Metadata, Importance of Metadata