metadata – improving learning

START-ing to think about user-contributed metadata

May 11, 2007 by opencontent

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 … Read more

Metadata is a Derivative Work

October 25, 2006 by opencontent

At the OCW Consortium meetings at the Open Education conference in September, I asked whether other OCWs had explicitly CC licensed their metadata. In talking to people then and since then, the general response is best characterized as hemming and hawing. Very folks appear to have considered this licensing status of their metadata. But this … Read more

On Metacrap

March 31, 2006 by opencontent

I was recently asked what I thought of Cory Doctorow’s classic Metacrap paper. He was, of course, dead on when he wrote it. The nagging question at the time was “what alternatives do we have?” And the sad answer was “not many.”