Posts Tagged ‘DC-Education’
I’ve a model … so you’ll know what I mean
The universe consists of objects having various qualities and standing in various relations.
-Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica (1911-13).
The world is everything that is the case.
What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts.
The logical picture of the facts is the thought.
The thought is the significant proposition.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)
Derek Zoolander: Why do you hate models, Matilda?
Matilda Jeffries: Honestly?
Hansel: Yes.
Matilda: I think they’re vain, stupid, and incredibly self-centered.
Hansel: I totally agree with you. But how do you feel about male models?
-Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Owen Wilson, Zoolander (2001)
Models are hot right now in metadata circles.
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Educational metadata standards – recent international activity
The metadata planets seemed to have aligned in recent months and there has been standards activity on several fronts. Sarah Currier’s paper from a couple of years back, Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008, gives a good background to the current environment.
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Evan Bailey
Irvin Flack
