All,
Was speaking at a DTI run Digital Content Forum. Key topic was
content brokerage and syndication for an elearning marketplace and the
role of metadata. Wayne Hodgins of LOM fame was also talking and he said
that much objective metadata should be automatically generated ( similar
to office documents props ) and then was an interesting discussion
around use of soft techniques for subjective metadata. He proposed use
of recommender systems ( similar to amazon and other online operations
in the states which have been very useful and popular in practice ) and
I asked his view on the role for fuzzy data and logic to give numerical
score for say educational level and then each community could use
appropriate vocabulary to interpret it rather than be the data i.e the
key knowledge is suitable for kids between 5 and 10 not that we call
this x and when looking we could use the power of fuzzy search rather
than the term. Wayne was very positive in favour of this principle and
felt much of the subjective metadata should be User rather than
Classifier focussed .
What do you think
Best
Steve Jeyes
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From: The CETIS Metadata Special Interest Group
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Sent: 28 November 2003 14:58
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Subject: Re: Thesauri and authority files for keywords
Scott's right, VDEX can be used for this. zThes has also been used. The
Reload-VDEX tool can be used to convert between VDEX and zThes encodings
(or anything else you care to write an XSLT for). See the discussion for
other suggestions (especially
<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0310&L=cetis-metadata&T=
0&O=D&P=4933>)
Phil.
Scott Wilson wrote:
> Sounds like a job for VDEX to me...
>
> On 28/11/03 12:21 pm, "Ben Ryan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>>All,
>> Is anybody using thesauri and/or authority lists for keywords
when
>>collecting metadata, and if so what are you using?
>>
>> We need to add a search/browse capability to our metadata entry
to allow
>>the user to select keywords only from an approved lists and it would
be nice
>>if we could have a linked thesaurus as well.
>>
>>Any thoughts?
>>
>>Regards,
>> Ben
>>
>>-----------------------------------------------
>>Dr Ben Ryan
>>HLSI Software Development Manager
>>University of Huddersfield
>>Tel: 01484 473587
>>E-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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>>
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