Information Politics: The Story Of an Emerging Metadata Standard

Information Politics: The Story Of an Emerging Metadata Standard
Good discussion of the politics and in-fighting that goes on behind the scenes in the adoption of a metadata standard, in this case, XBRL, a business reporting standard. What bothers me is that the author presents this as a good way to do it: "those who would promote a new metadata standard might certainly learn a strategy or two from these skillful operatives. More...