George Roberts wrote:
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>> Given the over-use of the term "metadata" and the uncertainty about
>> what is
>> meant by secondary, I would avoid using the term.
>
>
> So what do we call it? I use the term secondary metadata to mean
> information about learning objects "in the wild": where they came from,
> what other objects they have associated with, where they did it, why,
> whether the experience was a good one, who saw them at it ;-) This is
> the information that repositories are beginning to attach to objects as
> they are checked in and out. This information is partly automatically
> harvested and partly added by hand.
How about calling it "usage information" or "usage data"?
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> It is also one of the more interesting things about Learning
> Object technologies.
>
That's something we agree on!
Phil
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