Metadata in an Ecosystem of Presentation Dissemination – R. John Robertson, Phil Barker, Mahendra Mahey

How and how why do academics disseminate their presentations? How does this relate to their other forms of dissemination? What academic and organisational influences affect their dissemination? What influences their choice of tool? What metadata is created about the various things that are disseminated? Who creates that metadata, is the duplication necessary?

Our poster at DC2008 (http://dc2008.de/programme/posters) is a case study of ‘one’ academic’s dissemination of their presentations. It uses the repository ecology approach we’ve been developing and the resulting poster allows some interesting questions to be raised.  Here’s a copy for reference…

Here’s a pdf: Metadata in an Ecosystem of Presentation Dissemination at Dublin Core 2008