Our long-term goal is to create guidelines and exemplars to demonstrate how the active use of metadata can make research more effective, agile and timely for researchers. For Phase 2 we undertook to produce a “structural outline” to show what…
Collaboration for Research Enhancement by Active Metadata (CREAM)
A Jisc Research Data Spring project
Month: October 2015
Developing our deliverables
We have formed a working group with the specific aim of developing the structural framework that will not only be a key Phase 2 deliverable but also form the outline for the active use of metadata guidance that is our…
Procedural Blending and Annalist
From Graham Klyne On Friday 9 October, Iris Garrelfs and Graham Klyne attended a “Linked Music Hackathon” at Goldsmith’s University. The event was organised by Kevin Paige and David Weigl under the auspices of the Semantic Media projects SLICKMEM (Semantic Linking…
Spreading the word
Since our 21st September meeting, as well as continuing our work on characterising metadata usage with Annalist and developing our documentation of the active metadata concept and how we might produce appropriate guidance, we have submitted two Practice Papers and…
Musings of a sound artist on metadata and making art
From Iris Garrelfs 1. Data as material The principle of artworks visualising or sonifying scientific data sets is pretty well known. However, for some artists the role of research is to stimulate the imagination rather than to represent or produce…
Metadata and experience
From Iris Garrelfs Yesterday, Thanasis and I met briefly to further discuss the nature and role of “experience” in relation to matadata. Not an easy subject to get one’s head around, but necessary as in my experience (no pun intended)…
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