Many sites hosting collections of educational materials keep logs of the search terms used by visitors to the site who search for resources. Since it came up during the CETIS What Metadata (CETISWMD) event I have been think about what we could learn about metadata requirements from the analysis of these search logs. I’ve been [...]
At a meeting relating to the Resource Discovery Task Force the other day, Caroline Williams compared the variety of resource description metadata standards and profiles in Libraries, Archives, Museums and beyond as being like a Jackson Pollock picture.
She wouldn’t call it a mess (nor would I), but I think we could agree that it’s a [...]
As part of my non-CETIS work I occasionally go out to evaluate teaching practice in Engineering for the HE Academy Engineering Subject Centre. This involves me going to some University and talking to an Engineering lecturer and some students about an approach they are using for teaching and learning. I especially enjoy this because it [...]
It frequently comes to the attention of the CETIS-pedantry department that certain among the people with whom we interact, while they have much to say and write that is worth heeding, do not know when to use “licence” and when to use “license”. Those of you who prefer to use US English can stop reading [...]
