Sunday, June 17, 2007

Didattica & Social Software: Dopo l'EDEN

Didattica & Social Software: Dopo l'EDEN

Not sure how reliable the automated translation from Italian is, but google and babelfish both suggest you call ARIADNE "bankrupt"? I'm happy to point out that the ARIADNE Foundation (not project) is alive and well :-)

And maybe it wasn't clear from my presentation, but we rely on LOTS of metadata, LOM and others, to help people find relevant resources. LOM is certainly not "ill-famed" in the large communities that I work with. The point I tried to make is rather that LOM should be more hidden from end users. Metadata remain more crucial than ever though to enable sophisticated functionalities.

Just a clarification...

1 comment:

Corrado said...

Hello Erik,
happy to start a conversation with you. The term "fallimentare" doesn't refer to the money domain only but in a wider sense, to something that is not succeeded so well. What I mean is that the LOM paradigm has a problem because 80 fields can't be the solution to the LO search: the context are so many and different that must be the user itself to suggest the right tag for his reality. May be a folksonomy with a Dublin Core complement, may be an semantic algorithm (latent semantic analysys?) but I think this is the right direction: to continue with the old library paradigm can't be the solution.

But I'm positive you change idea, I read your recent paper about "Attention Metadata" and recommender systems based on the analysys of user actions and *not* on the use of a complex search interface...

May be we will meet f2f to discuss this topics in a future Conference.

ciao,

Corrado