Metadata

Detailed notes from yesterday’s Metadata and Repositories SIG Meeting at Birkbeck are now available on Wetpaint. My post yesterday forgot to thank organiser Neil Fegen and the team from Heriot-Watt, who ended up having a nightmare journey from Edinburgh down to London when their plane was cancelled and re-routed to a different airport! They heroically managed to arrive in time for the afternoon’s developer demo session.

I'm just back from today’s CETIS Metadata and Repositories SIG Meeting at Birkbeck, and wanted to post some notes while they’re fresh. Notes and comments arising from the crazily brave, “live-and-uncensored” demo sessions will get posted separately: for the curious, these included ORE; Becta Vocabulary Management System (VMS); ENTAG; FeedForward; and SOURCE.

In this 12 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Mark Notess, Development Manager & Usability Specialist at Indiana University. He is involved in several online learning and research tool development projects including the Variations 3 Digital Music Library Project, and Integrating Licensed Library Resources with Sakai. He also co-authored an article with Lisa Lorenzen-Huber entitled, "Online Learning for Seniors: Barriers and Opportunities". He spoke with Carie Windham at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington.

A highly de-centralized image management system exists and is also under development at Williams College. Academic Commons published the interview between AC and Henry Art, Biology/Environmental Science, Williams College. Also participating was Jonathan Leamon from Instruction Technology.

Art has thousands of Kodachromes and scans these as needed. He admits that he finds the slides better images but likes the convenience of modern digital images. Prof. Art does his own metadata tagging. Leamon says that Instruction Technology will help faculty with setting up a system for their images. He describes the image management system thus

 

PREMIS Metadata Tutorial: An Overview of the Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata with Implementation Case Studies

February 11, 2008, 9:00-5:30

UC San Diego Geisel Library, Seuss Room, UCSD, La Jolla, CA

The UC San Diego Libraries, the California Digital Library, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the PREMIS Editorial Committee are sponsoring a tutorial on the PREMIS Data Dictionary Feb. 11, 2008 at the UC San Diego Geisel Library on the UCSD campus in La Jolla, CA.

In this 32-minute presentation from the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Michael Fegan and Dean Rehberger in a session entitled Project Builder: Building Rich, Contextualized Web Presentations from a Digital Archive. They explain how the Project Builder CMS helps faculty members and cultural institutions create rich, multimedia digital archives and Web sites that are easily maintained and augmented.

In this 19 minute recording, we'll hear from Terri Bays, OCW Project Director at the University of Notre Dame. Listen in as she shares some thoughts on open courseware, institutional repositories and more.

In this 19 minute recording, we'll hear from Rachael Bower, Co-Director of the Internet Scout Project.  Join us as she share some thoughts on the project, their CWIS offering, their work with the Applied Math and Science Education Repository, and more!


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 21 minute recording, I sit down with Tony Hey, Microsoft's VP for Technical Computing.

Let's listen in as he compares e-science research in the US and UK, talks about the prospects of multicore computing, shares his thoughts on the NSF's cyberinfrastructure report, and sheds some light on the challenges of working with very large, high throughput datasets ... the raw materials of research. 

He also briefly touches on the UK's Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII) and as well as their Digital Curation Centre  ... an attempt to bring scientists, computer scientists and librarians together to to tackle issues involvingcuration and preservation of massive amounts of data. 

More on Tony Hey
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/tonyhey/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/may05/05-17HeyPR.mspx
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2005b.fall/plenary.html

Sorry, I couldn't help but think of REM when Tony began to talk about multicore chips
It's the end of Moore's Law as we know it -- and I feel fine ...  ;)

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

 

Here are some interesting tools/projects that I ran across today ...

Annodex
http://www.annodex.net/

MediaMatrix
http://matrix.msu.edu/

BBC Annotatable Audio project
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/10/on_the_bbc_annotatable_audio_project.shtml

Project Pad
http://www.at.northwestern.edu/spoken/p04annotation.html
http://www.spokenword.ac.uk/annotation.php

http://epresence.tv/ - not an explict audio annotation tool, but I would expect that it could be adapted to do it ... the timeline features are one of the first things that caught my eye