Demystifying Metadata
http://mappa.mundi.net/trip-m/metadata/

Lucas, Marty
Mappa Mundi
1999

Abstract:

As long as people have been collecting information together, be it in the form of a library, an institutional filing system, a collection of accounting records or whatever, they've needed to come up with ways to help them know how to properly file and retrieve documents. These systems needn't involve any high technology.