not just metadata, but "attention metadata". as i understand it, its the idea to go beyond words; to look and analyze any interaction that any person ever had with a text. the "any" comes form erik duval, who is doing a workshop on this.

Facilitating the usage of contextualized attention metadata is a cross-disciplinary research topic that combines research results and challenges from communities including databases, information retrieval, knowledge representation, knowledge management, user modeling, recommender systems, learning technologies, etc. | contextualized attention metadata

how to educate engineers ends up with just another metadata discussion. at least for me, so far:

We cannot (solely) rely on humans for metadata creation: humans "don't scale" and humans are not perfect. More importantly, producing metadata is not exactly fun! (amg)

it's not fun to be perfect and i don't want to be. yet, the machine doesn't know what i don't know ...

maybe of interest: grand research challenges for learning objects.

at least one guy so far told me what i think, too. - besides that nobody says "e-learning" in europa any more but uses the clumsy slogan "technology-supported lifelong learning" (wondering when the first lifelong learner will die and with him the word), this ict learning approach is just good for applying for money. you can get funding for fancy and expensive pilot studies, but as soon as the money flow dries out the efforts at the institutions stop as well. he should know as he works for the eu committee for eQuality learning.

damit mir dort nicht fad wird, geh ich zum geburtstagsfest von señore gödel. 27 - 29.04, horizons of the truth. mathematiker sind immer so bescheiden ... und kurti wäre 100.

open lecture by roger penrose on the 29th, vienna city hall.

I believe that conscious minds are not algorithmic entities.

review of 'shadows of the mind' by john mccarthy.