The History of Metadata

[@maletu]

Very helpful, thank you. But a tiny historical side-note. Codices, while a novelty (or an early-adopter phenomenon) in the 3rd century CE, quickly became the dominant form of "text storage" in and around the Mediterranean basin (and then Europe generally). The great medieval hand-illuminated manuscripts PRE Gutenberg (e.g., Book of Kells) were codices. Codices replaced scrolls so quickly because it required SO much less labor (and less wear and tear on the document!) to find something in a codex than in a scroll. It is thought that works were lost in the transition to the codex format--if noone copied a scroll to a codex, and noone wanted (or took care of) the old scroll: zip.

[@Realistazoul]

Thanks, Jeff! Keep up the good videos. Very helpful!