{"id":62,"date":"2003-02-27T10:13:40","date_gmt":"2003-02-27T18:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/02\/27\/the-challenge-of-getting-people-to-author-metadata\/"},"modified":"2003-02-27T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2003-02-27T18:13:40","slug":"the-challenge-of-getting-people-to-author-metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/02\/27\/the-challenge-of-getting-people-to-author-metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"The challenge of getting people to author metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0110772\/2003\/02\/25.html#a795\">http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0110772\/<br \/>\n2003\/02\/25.html#a795<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s a presentation on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betaversion.org\/~stefano\/papers\/\">&#8220;The Economy of Distributed Metadata Authoring&#8221;<\/a> by&nbsp; Stefano Mazzocchi&nbsp;. A few passages ring especially&nbsp;true to me. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betaversion.org\/~stefano\/papers\/18\">First Law of Metadata Quality<\/a>: <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial intelligence is just that: artificial!\n<li>So: for a system that feels smart to humans, you need human-crafted metadata<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betaversion.org\/~stefano\/papers\/23\">Suggestions<\/a>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do all efforts to make instant return on the investment of metadata authoring\n<li>Don&#8217;t ask too much\n<li>Be smart but not smarter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the same wisdom went into the design of the <a href=\"http:\/\/topicexchange.com\/\">Internet Topic Exchange<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you just love when,<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nin 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 &#8211; lo and behold &#8211; you find exactly what you were looking for. I expect there&#8217;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 &#8216;chance&#8217; occurences of relevant material, or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the above post from S\u00e9bastien Paquet (along with the last post by Brian Lamb referring to David Wiley&#8217;s paper of <a href=\"http:\/\/wiley.ed.usu.edu\/docs\/ososs.pdf\">Self Organizing Systems for Learning<\/a>) 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 &#8216;cataloguing&#8217; 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 &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; via [<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0110772\/\">Seb&#8217;s Open Research<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0110772\/ 2003\/02\/25.html#a795 &#8220;Here&#8217;s a presentation on &#8220;The Economy of Distributed Metadata Authoring&#8221; by&nbsp; Stefano Mazzocchi&nbsp;. A few passages ring especially&nbsp;true to me. First Law of Metadata Quality: Artificial intelligence is just that: artificial! So: for a system that feels smart to humans, you need human-crafted metadata Suggestions: Do all efforts to make instant return on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/02\/27\/the-challenge-of-getting-people-to-author-metadata\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The challenge of getting people to author metadata&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-objects","tag-learning-objects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}