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                    Seminar Announcement

            Department of Computer Science, FEIT
             The Australian National University
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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 rkut.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/dept20050527

Further contact:
   M.Allen@exchange.curtin.edu.au



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