Thursday, July 21, 2005

Border Crossings: Reflections on a Decade of Metadata Consensus Building. Good overview of the challenges inherent in building a metadata standard, and specifically, Dublin Core, in this case by Stuart L. Weibel as he leaves the DCMI management team. A primary challenge is metadata creation itself. "Who wouldn't want to spend an extra few minutes (creating metadata) with so much already invested?" As it turns out, almost nobody. As Eric Duval says, "Librarians don't scale'. We need automated (or at least, hybrid) means for creating metadata." Yup. "Another naïve assumption was that metadata would be the primary key to discovery on the Web." Maybe for spammers. But the uses of metadata are much more nuanced than simple discovery. Via EdTechPost. By Stuart L. Weibel, D-Lib Magazine, July/August, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:06:39 AM      Google It!.

Birds Imitate Mobile Phone Ring Tones. So if a bird hears someone's telephone and learns to imitate the ring tone, and then you go out and record the bird singing that particular song, and then install the recording on your own telephone, is that piracy? By DPA, Indo-Asian News Service, July 20, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:04:04 AM      Google It!.

100Mbps Home Internet Service Next Year in Finland [Slashdot:] 8:59:34 AM      Google It!.

A Matched Study between a Face-to-face Section and a Real-Time Online Section of a Course - Mia Lobel, Michael Neubauer, Randy Swedburg; IRRODL. Two sections of an interpersonal skills building university course were observed for the purposes of this matched study. The face-to-face (F2F) section was in a classroom on the Concordia University campus in Montreal, Canada, while the non-turn-taking re [Online Learning Update] 8:51:00 AM      Google It!.