::fc-announce:: Tacit metadata, ANU Seminar, Canberra, 27 May 2005 (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[Tom Worthington]

All welcome to this free seminar. No need to book, just turn up:

                     Seminar Announcement
             Department of Computer Science, FEIT
              The Australian National University

Date:  Friday, 27 May 2005
Time:  3:30 pm to 4:30 pm (followed by drinks)
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]

Speaker: Dr Matthew Allen (Internet Studies, Curtin University)

Title:   Scholarly metadata: can we go from tacit to automatic?


Abstract:

In this short, informal presentation Matthew Allen, will sketch a view 
of metadata that goes well beyond the allocation of tags or codes that 
describe scholarly publications in terms of content, of denotations of 
production or location within an orderly schema of knowledge. He 
suggests that we might, in electronic publishing of scholarly material, 
find ways to attach to that material a much richer set of metadata that 
makes explicit some of the often-tacit knowledge which academics depend 
upon in 'assessing' what scholarly information may or may not be useful 
for.

Matthew lays out three possibilities for metadata - one that involves 
authors and producers of information providing distinctively different 
kinds of metadata (about both themselves and the publication) drawing 
on the example of online social networks such as orkut.com; one that 
involves users and readers providing that metadata and more (in the 
fashion of flickr.com); and one that involves, google-style, automated 
processes of understanding the uses and flows of scholarly information.

Biography:

Matthew Allen is Associate Professor, Internet Studies, Faculty of 
Media, Society and Culture at Curtin University. He leads teaching and 
research in the Internet Studies Program and is conducting research 
(when I can) into policy-making and regulation of the Internet, 
especially broadband development and its meaning. He leads Curtin's 
Master of E-Learning Development (MELD) Project and is the 
Vice-President of the Association of Internet Researchers and a member 
of the Western Australia State Library Board.

URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars05/

Further contact: M.Allen [at] exchange.curtin.edu.au

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