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Monthly Archives: March 2007

read-write web

March 29, 2007 – 9:50 am

One of the terms that seems to be used quite a lot lately is the read-write web. While I understand the intention of the term I believe it still embeds us in the world of text and in my view, we have really moved on from that. I read and write text, I […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, Web 2.0, read-write web | Comments (4)

On the credibility of information sources

March 15, 2007 – 1:24 pm

Wikipedia has been the topic of much discussion in the office recently and it was interesting for me to see it as the centre of discussion on another mailing list that I am a member of. Essentially, someone had asked for comments/information about Wikipedia’s editorial policy and this led to some quite active discussion. […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, wikipedia | Comments (3)

Metadata still matters

March 1, 2007 – 7:43 am

Metadata is used in many applications and has potential in many more emerging areas but I am going to concentrate simply on ’search’ here. Those of us in the repository space will be familiar with the metadata vs text indexing argument and comparisons with Google.
This blog has been active for a few months now […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, viewdo, Wii, search, metadata | Comments (2)