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This final chapter rounds off our exploration of metadata by discussing its importance to human culture and development. Little of human intellectual advancement could have occurred without metadata, nor could cultures have survived or developed without it. It is a ‘science of ideas’ which makes the organization of knowledge rational and so capable of growth and development.
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Gartner, R. (2016). Knowledge and Uncertainty. In: Metadata. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40893-4_10
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