Recent reports about the privacy concerns of users of social networking services (such as FaceBook, LinkedIn or MySpace) and online gaming have highlighted one of the problems of regulating activity on the Internet: who regulates? Read more 
Is the Internet a place?
Metadata – What is its purpose?
Preparation of lecture notes for the postgraduate students at City University the other day got me to thinking about the purposes of metadata. When I wrote Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval a few years ago, I came up with five purposes of metadata. Read more
Information skills and digital resources
I was invited recently to deliver a one-day course on Institutional Repositories and Metadata for a group of academic librarians in Ireland. The course was based on the CILIP course of the same name and tailored to the needs of ANLTC (Academic and National Libraries Training Consortium). During discussions with colleagues in ANLTC – all experienced information professionals – one issue came up repeatedly: the difficulty in describing items on institutional repositories in a consistent way. Read more
