Metadata and the Amount of Information
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The document discusses the vast amount of data, or metadata, that exists both digitally and physically. It notes that in 2003, statistics showed over 1,600 terabytes of paper-based information existed across libraries and journals, equivalent to millions of books and newspapers. Digitally, over 1.986 exabytes of data existed on hard disks in 1999, and the total information flowing over the internet that year was 532.897 exabytes, over 100 times more than all words ever spoken by humans.
Metadata and the Amount of Information
- 1. Metadata
- 3. Example
- 4. Example
- 5. Based on statistics gathered in 2003 by the School of Information Management and Systems at University of California, Berkley How much Information?
- 6. Paper
- 7. Type Terabytes Translation Books 39 4 Library of Congress Newspapers 138.4 6,920,000 Trees Journals 6 3 Research Libraries Misc. 1450.4 I can’t count that high Total 1633.8 A Lot of Paper
- 8. Digital Information Just a glimpse
- 9. Hard Disk Content 1.986 Exabytes 2 Exabytes = Total volume of information generated in 1999.
- 10. Information Flow on the Internet
- 11. 532.897 Exabytes
- 12. Over 100 times all words ever spoken by human beings