Using wiki

[Ari Jolma]

ok, now we're on a proper email list.

I'm continuing the discussion on educational materials / the tasks of 
the edu project.

Arnulf Christl kirjoitti:
>
> === Some thoughts ===
> * Do you already have or see coming such a large amount of material 
> that it would be necessary to query it with the use of a database?

No...or maybe... The points that I was trying to make were (i) that our 
task is in fact huge, and (ii) metadata about teaching material is 
essential -- and very useful. It's also our choice, this top-down 
approach requires, or so I think, this metadata tagging. The other 
possibility is bottom-up, i.e., we select or develop some course 
material and work on it. Then, I think, we are more or less in one slot 
of my database, and we need to select the one.

> * What about languages (rl)? Most of what we (us/me/I) will provide 
> might be in German language only? There is a Brazilian effort in 
> Portuguese, etc.

Sure, the language is an essential piece of metadata.

> * The amount of meta information you suggest might/will prevent most 
> contributors to enter anything (at least that is what we learned from 
> giving people ISO 19115 meta data forms and getting nothing... )-: 
> Even forcing them won't work, you really need a big club.
>
That could be our contribution too. _We_ add the metadata, and while 
we're at it, we can also evaluate the material somehow. Sure, Puneet 
might need a club then.

About breadcrumb tracks, sometimes I amuse myself by putting my name in 
google and see all the old emails etc. I've written. Web has a long 
memory, even longer than wikis.

Ari

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Prof. Ari Jolma
Kartografia ja Geoinformatiikka / Cartography and Geoinformatics
Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology
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Email: ari.jolma at tkk.fi URL: http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma