TILE – Enabling Contribution

This is the second area that TILE is focusing on. Mark van Harmelen presented on this, but I didn’t manage to capture it all. Essentially he considered User Activities

  • Discovering
    • searching via terms and tags (personalisation or not)
    • browsing, as a result of recommending (via human and computer choices)
  • Collecting – bookmarking
  • Consuming – read/use
  • Enhancing – adding comments, dialogues and tags
  • Creating content, repurposing, remixing
  • Publishing – explicitly making visible
  • Curating – by, possibly in quest different ways by users and library/information professionals
  • Collaborating – for learning, teaching and research

And some of the associated problems

  • Control and cultural imperatives
  • User base FE, HE, post formal ed, LL
  • Trust and data quality (are the reviews ‘worthwhile’, could you allow updates to catalogue records? etc.)
  • Data longevity
  • Task support and workflow
  • Technical implementation problems
  • Cost (particularly search engine cost)
  • Hand-off in the context of national data security

Some really interesting discussion around data and control – how we should approach this.

Definite agreement we need to open up data and ‘give up’ control, but not complete agreement on a lot of other things (should we be aiming for aggregation or distribution of data? should there be a ‘UK HE’ search engine?). Lots of debate, that I hope someone else captured better than I have here (I was too busy actually debating to type!)

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