The advent of the internet has provided us with a proliferation of online resources but has also presented us with the need to find a mechanism to enable the organisation and discovery of these resources.
DC metadata was developed primarily to assist with the discovery of information and resources. It provided a structure for the description […]
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Social tagging — Metadata and web 2.0
November 6, 2006 – 12:08 pm
Posted in Uncategorized, Educationau, metadata, information management, DC Conference, tagging
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International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
October 18, 2006 – 1:50 pm
The annual DC conference this year was held in Mexico, 3-6 October and the theme was Metadata for Knowledge and Learning. Presentations are now available from the conference website. The main focus of the presentations is around vocabularies and abstract models. Stuart Weibel’s blog provides an excellent overview and discussion on key issues. The discussion on and importance of abstract models […]
Metadata at education.au
September 12, 2006 – 12:02 pm
This posting was prompted by Judy O’Connell’s blog entry on “Building an education strategy for metadata”. I agree whole heartedly with the sentiments of the entry and as another information management professional I appreciate the enormous benefits derived from the use of metadata.
We at education.au (national ICT agency) have had an involvement with metadata since […]
