Yes, it's been put in the too-hard basket for a while but at some stage it comes back to bite you. It is being addressed, quite well from what I hear, at the University in relation to the CMS and the management of online content in general, so this is a good start. To Metadata or not to Metadata looks at the basic issues and how groups and software vendors are tackling the problem.
A couple of things have become increasingly clear: Metadata is not going away and there is no one simple solution to how to add metadata and maximize its value. Consequently, what we are going to do in this article is take a look at some of the basic issues around adding metadata to unstructured content and explore a range of approaches that various groups and software vendors are trying. We will then examine how a broader view of metadata, beyond simply adding keywords to documents, is leading to a more sophisticated, multi-dimensional or infrastructure-based approach to metadata that supports a smarter balance of both more and less metadata.
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