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Metadata are descriptive terms that are applied to information resources, primarily for the purpose of facilitating retrieval. If I say this book is red, and you ask the system for a red book, a match will occur and everybody is happy. Were that the problem were actually so simple. In fact, metadata are used in a variety of ways in resource description and thus potentially play different roles in knowledge organization. Let us begin with a simple example, a citation for a monograph, formulated according to the Chicago Manual of Style:
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Smiraglia, R.P. (2014). Metadata. In: The Elements of Knowledge Organization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09357-4_8
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