The social processes by which a community comes to agree on a common
technical vocabulary such as a metadata scheme, and the tools to facilitate
its evolution by a distributed community, are of great interest to me --
anyone got any case studies on how this works (or fails to)?
Simon
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Dr Simon Buckingham Shum, Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K.
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