Well over a decade ago we started using metadata to enable us to manage online resources. In a sense we were transferring our organisational skills and know- how from the physical environment to the online environment. And in so doing instead of saying we are cataloguing or creating records about online resources we chose terminology […]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Trends, experiments and information organisation
July 30, 2008 – 4:01 pm
By hgalatis
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Posted in Educationau, metadata, information management, social tags, tagging
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Integrated metadata strategies
July 7, 2008 – 12:29 pm
A recent report, Metadata for digital libraries: state of the art and the future directions, by JISC Tech Watch looks at the importance of metadata in a networked environment. A suggested barrier to the emergence of a single standard is the complex metadata requirements of digital objects. For example there is need for descriptive metadata, […]
