{"id":489,"date":"2016-02-29T11:26:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/?p=489"},"modified":"2016-02-29T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:26:31","slug":"metadata-in-action-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/2016\/02\/29\/metadata-in-action-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Metadata in Action workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On 25th February members of the CREAM team held a workshop &#8220;Metadata in \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Action&#8221; at IDCC 2016 in Amsterdam. The workshop lasted 3 hours and was <\/span><span class=\"s1\">designed to give participants an indication of the potential impact of <\/span><span class=\"s1\">using metadata actively on enhancing research. Specifically, they were <\/span><span class=\"s1\">engaged in discussions and fun hands-on activities, using both sound art <\/span><span class=\"s1\">and science, to explore the nature, generation, capture, curation and <\/span><span class=\"s1\">active use of metadata for research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"workshop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/irisgarrelfs\/24646412073\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1654\/24646412073_fa393cff0c_z.jpg\" alt=\"workshop\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">After a brief introduction of the CREAM objectives, Iris Garrelfs lead <\/span><span class=\"s1\">the group in sound art activities. such as a listening walk uncovering <\/span><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;planted&#8221; sounds or exploring the environment with a &#8220;listening cone&#8221;, <\/span><span class=\"s1\">that led participants to recognise how early inherent concepts impact on <\/span><span class=\"s1\">even very basic experiences such as listening. Potentially recording <\/span><span class=\"s1\">such &#8220;inward&#8221; observations and decisions taken as a result might lead to <\/span><span class=\"s1\">increased transparency and facilitate the later identification of errors <\/span><span class=\"s1\">or where new routes could be taken along a previous workflow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Listening\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fluffydragon\/24744381333\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1496\/24744381333_6d81a0a4d9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Listening\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Cerys Willoughby facilitated the second half of the workshop, getting the participants think about metadata within scientific processes. The activity involved completing a scientific experiment using a chemical reaction in the form of<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Alka-Seltzer and water to power a small Lego car of their own design. The participants were encouraged to design their own experiment and to record their results on one of three randomly allocated templates. As well as discussing what the active metadata in the experiment might be, the participants shared their experiences of recording their process, ideas and decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"workshop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/irisgarrelfs\/25273200835\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1471\/25273200835_9d202c9c67_z.jpg\" alt=\"workshop\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We set out to encourage our participants to think about metadata in a different way and to have some fun. The discussions at the end of the workshop suggest that we accomplished both aims. Not only did the participants enjoy the workshop, but they also gained an insight into their own\u00a0approaches to situations, the importance of knowing their biases, and capturing decisions to provide\u00a0context for\u00a0their work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Colin\u00a0also presented our paper at the conference. You can find out more about the presentation and how to get the paper from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/2016\/02\/29\/cream-at-idcc16\/\">CREAM at IDCC16<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25th February members of the CREAM team held a workshop &#8220;Metadata in \u00a0Action&#8221; at IDCC 2016 in Amsterdam. The workshop lasted 3 hours and was designed to give participants an indication of the potential impact of using metadata actively &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/2016\/02\/29\/metadata-in-action-workshop\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Metadata in Action workshop<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[377866],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Cixy-7T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}