http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/
2003/02/25.html#a795
“Here’s a presentation on “The Economy of Distributed Metadata Authoring” by Stefano Mazzocchi . A few passages ring especially true to me.
- Artificial intelligence is just that: artificial!
- So: for a system that feels smart to humans, you need human-crafted metadata
- Do all efforts to make instant return on the investment of metadata authoring
- Don’t ask too much
- Be smart but not smarter
Some of the same wisdom went into the design of the Internet Topic Exchange.”
Don’t you just love when,
in the process of thinking about an issue, you come to a question that you know others are looking at and that is more than you could handle yourself, and then the next minute you turn around and – lo and behold – you find exactly what you were looking for. I expect there’s a name for this phenomenon, and I also expect someone will soon develop an explanation of why this phenomenon seems so applified within the blogosphere. I suppose it has something to do with the fact that you self-subscribe to channels that are of interest you you, and that the natural by product of this aggregation is more ‘chance’ occurences of relevant material, or something like that.
In any case, the above post from Sébastien Paquet (along with the last post by Brian Lamb referring to David Wiley’s paper of Self Organizing Systems for Learning) are leading me to lots of good thinking and research that has already gone into to the issue of how to deal with the challenge of creating meta-data. The high overhead of ‘cataloguing’ was one of the constant themes I heard last week as a barrier to adoption, and though the approaches may differ, there seems to me to be a large number of options to implement systems that aggregate and re-use the ways people look for, talk about and actually use objects and also harness some of the powers of automation. Exciting stuff – SWL
– via [Seb’s Open Research]