What is a Digital Object?
We find ourselves in a media-intensive milieu comprising networks, images, sounds, and text, which we generalize as data and metadata. How can we understand this digital milieu and make sense of these data, not only focusing on their functionalities but also reflecting on our everyday life and exist...
| Published in: | Metaphilosophy Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 380 - 398 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2012
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=77754525&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 77754525 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00261068 9OM jtl: Metaphilosophy issn: 00261068 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jul2012 vid: 43 iid: 4 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 77754525 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2012.01761.x ppf: 380 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 636KB tig: atl: What is a Digital Object? aug: au: Hui, Yuk affil: Institut de Recherche et d′Innovation, 4 rue Aubry le Boucher, 75004, Paris France su: Digital Object Identifiers Computer networks HTML (Document markup language) XML (Extensible Markup Language) SGML (Document markup language) Metadata sug: subj: Digital Object Identifiers Computer networks HTML (Document markup language) XML (Extensible Markup Language) SGML (Document markup language) Metadata keyword: digital objects metadata phenomenology Simondon Stiegler ab: We find ourselves in a media-intensive milieu comprising networks, images, sounds, and text, which we generalize as data and metadata. How can we understand this digital milieu and make sense of these data, not only focusing on their functionalities but also reflecting on our everyday life and existence? How do these material constructions demand a new philosophical understanding? Instead of following the reductionist approaches, which understand the digital milieu as abstract entities such as information and data, this article proposes to approach it from an embodied perspective: objects. The article contrasts digital objects with natural objects (e.g., apples on the table) and technical objects (e.g., hammers) in phenomenological investigations, and proposes to approach digital objects from the concept of 'relations,' on the one hand the material relations that are concretized in the development of mark-up languages, such as SGML, HTML, and XML, and on the other hand, Web ontologies, the temporal relations that are produced and conditioned by the artificial memories of data. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Metaphilosophy is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Metaphilosophy holder: Wiley-Blackwell dt: @attributes: year: 2012 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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