MetaMap is a project by James Turner and VÈronique Moal at the UnivÈrsite de MontrÈal that nicely presents a subway map visualization of the variety of metadata standards. You can travel the subway lines of standards learning about this virtual underground polis.
James I knew at the University of Toronto when he and I were in graduate school and collaborated with Joan Cherry of FIS on an interface research project. He had then a sense of design and this project shows that he is still thinking through how to use design to understand.
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