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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!.
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