Standards by Jeffrey Pomerantz
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 that govern so many elements of the physical and digital environments, from the color of school buses to the shape of shipping containers.
In an approachable, often outright funny fashion, Pomerantz and Griffey explore the nature, function, and effect of standards in everyday life. Using examples of specific standards and contexts in which they are applied--in the realms of technology, economics, sociology, and information science--they illustrate how standards influence the development and scope, and indeed the very range of possibilities of our built and social worlds. Deeply informed and informally written, their work makes a subject generally deemed boring, complex, and fundamentally important comprehensible, clear, and downright engaging.
Jason Griffey is the founder and chief consultant of Evenly Distributed, a library and education technology consulting organization. He's published a chapter in The Top Technology Every Librarian Needs to Know: A LITA Handbook, and he's written a lot about libraries and technology. Mobile Technology and Libraries, his previous work, is part of the award-winning Tech Set series. He has published and spoken globally on themes such as the future of technology and libraries, personal devices in the library, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property, and was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2009. He is the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project, which is an open source digital file delivery system that is portable.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780262549493 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262549492 |
| Title | Standards |
| Author | Jeffrey Pomerantz |
| Series | Mit Press Essential Knowledge Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | MIT Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-03-04 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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