Standards, 9780262549493
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Unseen rules shape our world: discover the power of standards.

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    7 April 2025

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Summary

Standards: The Invisible Infrastructure Shaping Our World

An engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern world.

Standards are the DNA of the built environment, encoded in nearly all objects that surround us in the modern world. In Standards, Jeffrey Pomerantz and Jason Griffey provide an essential introduction to this invisible but critical form of infrastructure - the rules and specifications …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262549493
ISBN-10:0262549492
Series:The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Author:Jeffrey Pomerantz, Jason Griffey
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:7 April 2025
Weight:369g
Dimensions:178mm x 127mm
About The Author

Jeffrey Pomerantz

Jeffrey Pomerantz, co-founder of the educational technology company Proximal Design Labs and former professor of Library and Information Science, is the author of Metadata, also in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series.

Jason Griffey, Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, has been a professor and academic librarian at the University of TN at Chattanooga, a technology consultant, and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

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