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13 Jul 2010
This paper outlines ongoing work in the area of metadata for events which is being undertaken by Australias ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in education agency, education.au. Calendars of conferences, opportunities and celebrations of interest to Australias education and training community are a core service of Education Network Australia (edna), education.aus premier service. The ongoing development of an events metadata application profile for the edna calendars is described, a[..]
07 Jul 2010
A presentation by Pru Mitchell at the Metadata 2010 Sharing Data, Sharing Ideas conference, held in Canberra, Australia, 26-27 May 2010. This presentation presents the finding of and describes a number of edna metadata extraction projects undertaken by the Education Network Australia (edna) team of Education.au (now Education Services Australia) over the past 2 years.
06 Jun 2010
Gov 2.0 Semantc Tagging of Government Websites (Pru Mitchell bookmarked this item)
Digital brand. Gov 2.0 Taskforce Project 5, Nov 2009
26 May 2010
metadataAustralia2010 (Pru Mitchell bookmarked this item)
Programme for Metadata Australia 2010 conference May 2010 #metaoz
25 Apr 2010
research advances and discussions about meta-data in a broad sense, and about their associated semantics and ontological structures, from a multi-disciplinary perspective, and with an emphasis on domain-specific ontologies and organisational, human interaction and social issues regarding metadata annotation, use and assessment. It also intends covering Semantic Web research, as a concrete metadata-intensive technological framework in which shared and standardised semantics are a critical issue (inderscience, quarterly)
31 Dec 2009
Education.au [edna Resources] (Carmel Haggerty bookmarked this item)
Education.au is a national ICT agency owned by the education and training Ministers in Australia. education.au has been established to enact agreements reached by these Ministers in the Ministerial Council for Education, Employment and Youth Affairs. The business of the Agency is to develop and manage online services that are of benefit to the education and training sector and are national in scope. The Agency does this through the use of collaborative and consultative processes with the aim of [..]
30 Dec 2009
As Australia's national ICT in education agency, education.au faces the challenge of indexing web resources, learning objects and teacher-created resources for optimum discoverability by students and educators across all sectors of Australian education. This paper provides an overview of current thinking about learning architectures, and raises questions about how educational institutions are managing the cloud of learning resources currently available.
This paper, presented at an Ark Group Conference on Developing and Implementing Classification Systems, gives an overview of developments in social tagging and folksonomies. The author discusses differences between folksonomies and formal taxonomies and looks at particular issues for social tagging in enterprise information management. She also describes a proof of concept project to develop community contributions to managing information and resources, using Taxonomy-Directed Folksonomy.
07 Dec 2009
Education Network Australia (edna) [edna Resources] (Matthew Kearney bookmarked this item)
Education Network Australia (edna) is a national cross-sectoral education project which supports, promotes and facilitates the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for learning, education, training, research and scholarship in Australia. It includes a directory of education organisations, a metadata repository of aggregated evaluated online education and training resources, free collaborative tools such as groups and email discussion lists, calendars for events and conferences[..]
13 Nov 2009
Education.au [edna Resources] (Sue Wyatt bookmarked this item)
Education.au is a national ICT agency owned by the education and training Ministers in Australia. education.au has been established to enact agreements reached by these Ministers in the Ministerial Council for Education, Employment and Youth Affairs. The business of the Agency is to develop and manage online services that are of benefit to the education and training sector and are national in scope. The Agency does this through the use of collaborative and consultative processes with the aim of [..]

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