Should we be orienting our colleagues to OAI Standards?

Is there a supportable rationale for expanding the systematic orientation of colleagues and research students, to incorporate OAE standards into their document preparation routines?

Since labelling and keywords can make or break, does each University have a vested interest, in seeing their colleagues succeed in this interplay between content and search engines?

There seems to be little real conversation between the database authors, and the eventual archive contributors.

Would you agree, and what can we do about it in practical terms?

Please see: http://www.openarchives.org/

Yourview and MotionBox Offer Video Tagging Function

So the current topic is the 'folksonomies' which will hug the multi-media (audio-visual) database's metadata periphery:
The purpose of the tagging is to create a social input mechanism, as well as user-originating contributions to the valuation process of the films within the database. Two new software programs Yourview, and MotionBox, allow this internal tagging, which could be used to flag 'best scenes' favorite scenes' or other subject sub-categories.

David Weinberger, from Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is quoted in a BBC article titled 'Tagging 'takes off for web users' . Weinberger says, 'Tagging allows social groups to form around similarities of interests and points of view'.

It's in this context of this 'social function' of the tagging process which Weinberger problematizes in his own webblog, Joho. Weinberger is unsure whether it's possible for the user to make the crucial 'social' contribution, or if the software privileges the adminstrator, alone.

The experimental prototype of the BBC Programe Catalogue will eventually be forced to consider the interactive possibilities of letting users 'rate' their content, and even expand that content, as users already do at IMDB and the rapidly-growing but content wobbly Wikiland and her integrated suzerain of virtual clones and mimics.

In his webblog, Weinberger is on topic with his question;"We can already tag videos, of course. But how about being able to tag the good parts?" David Weinberger's weblog at http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/

BBC NEWS Service article: 'Tagging 'takes off for web users' at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6318531.stm
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