Good overview of the challenges inherent in building a metadata standard, and specifically, Dublin Core, in this case by Stuart L. Weibel as he leaves the DCMI management team. A primary challenge is metadata creation itself. "Who wouldn't want to spend an extra few minutes (creating metadata) with so much already invested?" As it turns out, almost nobody. As Eric Duval says, "Librarians don't scale'. We need automated (or at least, hybrid) means for creating metadata." Yup. "Another naïve assumption was that metadata would be the primary key to discovery on the Web." Maybe for spammers. But the uses of metadata are much more nuanced than simple discovery. Via EdTechPost.
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