Tom Cotton’s 8109

Yesterday’s meeting touched on the benefits of a strong vision. The vision provides a yard stick to measure all ideas against.For the evaluation stage, I started rambling on about ‘there should be an option for a IOs to tick if the resource is an event or document and therefore present a different set of metadata fields’.

Wait - remember the vision says:

“Collection improvement through user engagement and better metadata tools”

EDITH is a metadata Tool which is principally

1. automates discovery of the wise in the crowds amongst the masses
2. does limited automated metadata description

So….. reflecting on this, EDITH should not require IO intervention for a result to be produced. Therefore it does not require a user interface. It simply provides a list of resources with metadata that can be exploited using other collection management tools such as DSpace, RSS, etc.

Click! Ahhhh! EDITH is a resource metadata automation tool. Any sort of manual intervention in the flow of the process should be eliminated.

This gets us to a simpler, more elegant and closer to what’s really needed.
Thus the vision keeps us honest and guides us along the right POC path.