START-ing to think about user-contributed metadata

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Phil describes Prabhakar Raghavan’s keynote about Web N.0 in some detail (at WWW2007), including the following framework for thinking about user-contributed metadata.

User-generated metadata is growing. Anchortext and tags are growing at the rate of 100 Mb/day. Pageviews are around 50-100 Gb/day. Reviews and ratings are small. All of these, are important, but only anchors are central to how people work on the Web.

START metadata:

* Star: I like this
* Tag: creating tags on pictures, etc.
* Access: you view a page (in a way I can see)
* Routing: forwarding things to friends
* Text: write a review, blog article, etc.

These are in order of increasing engagement.

  • http://leekraus.blogspot.com Lee Kraus

    As I read back through the original post referenced, I was really interested in the designated progression of the metadata and the terms “increasing engagement.” Is this something that tracks well with our frameworks for instructional design? Should we be trying to increase user metadata as part of the instructional experience? Interesting. Thanks for the post.