By philb | September 15, 2011
Last week I was at the first face to face meeting of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative technical working group, here are my reflections on it. In short, what I said in previous post was about right, and the discussion went the way I hoped. One addition, though, that I didn’t cover in that post, [...]
By philb | September 8, 2011
In the spirit of Godwin’s law, I would propose that
“As any discussion about metadata grows longer the probability of a comparison to Google approaches one.”
Of course the comparison is usually that formal metadata is insignificant for the resource discovery needs of most people when compared to Google.
On one hand this is an over simplification: metadata [...]
