The Future of Metadata

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Wayne Hodgins[Edit][Delete]: The Future of Metadata, Off Course - On Target [Edit][Delete] November 29, 2006
Wayne Hodgins, who started blogging in October, offers this glimpse at his vision of the future of metadata. Note the effective embedding of a slide show in the blog post using SlideShare. As for the vision, well, it's good to see people talking about attention metadata (what I have called second-party metadata) and more on automatically generated metadata. But I question the emphasis on competencies that characterizes his recent work. More...