http://www.datachondria.com/2009/metadata-and-its-discontents/ Better Living Through Data Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:38:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.datachondria.com/2009/metadata-and-its-discontents/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Datachondria » Blog Archive » Why Margins Are No Longer Wide Enough for Marginalia Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:03:31 +0000 http://www.datachondria.com/?p=38#comment-13 [...] When your regular conversations about the implications of digital distribution tend to be vociferous discussions about publishing — intellectual property, maintaining cost structures, etc. — it’s easy to find yourself thinking far less about the implications for reading. But the discussion that Peter initiated was an exciting tease about some of those possibilities (before it veered, perhaps inevitably, to the “safe ground” of industry change). And it was reassuring that they are some of the things that we Datachondrians have been kicking around for a little while, in particular about technologies that will enable granular user-generated metadata. [...] [...] When your regular conversations about the implications of digital distribution tend to be vociferous discussions about publishing — intellectual property, maintaining cost structures, etc. — it’s easy to find yourself thinking far less about the implications for reading. But the discussion that Peter initiated was an exciting tease about some of those possibilities (before it veered, perhaps inevitably, to the “safe ground” of industry change). And it was reassuring that they are some of the things that we Datachondrians have been kicking around for a little while, in particular about technologies that will enable granular user-generated metadata. [...]

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