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商品描述
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.
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.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
對於標準的引人入勝的介紹，這些標準是塑造現代世界建築和數位環境的無形基礎設施。
標準是建築環境的DNA，幾乎編碼在我們現代世界中所環繞的所有物體中。在《標準》一書中，Jeffrey Pomerantz和Jason Griffey提供了對這種無形但關鍵基礎設施的基本介紹——這些規則和規範支配著物理和數位環境中的許多元素，從校車的顏色到貨櫃的形狀。Pomerantz和Griffey以易於接近且常常幽默的方式探討了標準在日常生活中的本質、功能和影響。他們使用具體標準及其應用背景的例子——涵蓋技術、經濟學、社會學和資訊科學等領域——來說明標準如何影響我們建築和社會世界的發展範圍，甚至是可能性的範圍。他們的作品深入淺出，非正式的寫作風格使這一主題變得易於理解、清晰明瞭，並且引人入勝，儘管這一主題通常被認為是無聊、複雜且根本重要的。作者簡介
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.
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.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
傑佛瑞·波梅蘭茲（Jeffrey Pomerantz）是教育科技公司 Proximal Design Labs 的共同創辦人，曾任圖書館與資訊科學教授，他是《Metadata》的作者，該書同樣屬於麻省理工學院出版社的 Essential Knowledge 系列。傑森·格里菲（Jason Griffey）是 NISO 的戰略倡議總監，曾在田納西州查塔努加大學擔任教授和學術圖書館員，並擔任技術顧問，以及哈佛大學伯克曼克萊因網路與社會中心的研究員和附屬成員。
