Standards

Jeffrey Pomerantz, Jason Griffey

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MIT Press
08 April 2025

Science: general issues

An engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern world.

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.

By: Jeffrey Pomerantz, Jason Griffey
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262549493
ISBN 10: 0262549492
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 08 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series Foreword 1 Introduction 2 History 3 The Lifecycle of Standards 4 Standards and You 5 Politics, Economics, and Power Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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.

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Standards

Jeffrey Pomerantz, Jason Griffey

$39.99

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