Metadata Games Cutting the Metacrap…

Metacrap? “ People are lazy…Short of breaking fingers or sending out squads of vengeful info-ninjas to add metadata to the average user's files, we're never gonna get there ” Cory Doctorow – “ Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia “

“ People are lazy…Short of breaking fingers or sending out squads of vengeful info-ninjas to add metadata to the average user's files, we're never gonna get there ”

You can’t change the whole internet …but what about your company?

You can’t change the whole internet

…but what about your company?

Reality Just people prioritising? And metadata doesn’t come high on their priorities…yet

Just people prioritising?

And metadata doesn’t come high on their priorities…yet

Motivating with games make it about them make it about the customer/user confound their expectations bribe them

make it about them

make it about the customer/user

confound their expectations

bribe them

Game 1: Metasnap one person is the searcher rest are authors authors tag content with up to 4 phrases searcher ‘searches’ with up to 4 phrases if they find one and only one card both author & searcher get a prize otherwise move on to next card

one person is the searcher

rest are authors

authors tag content with up to 4 phrases

searcher ‘searches’ with up to 4 phrases

if they find one and only one card both author & searcher get a prize

otherwise move on to next card

Metasnap cards

Metasnap learnings language is messy variants homonyms granularity free text searches = pressure on the searcher could cause problems for automation

language is messy

variants

homonyms

granularity

free text searches = pressure on the searcher

could cause problems for automation

Game 2: Metascoop you have some stories and some extra assets chose elements from existing stories with extra assets when needed write the story in the middle check the back of the assets to see if they have a connecting piece of metadata. prize for the best story

you have some stories and some extra assets

chose elements from existing stories with extra assets when needed

write the story in the middle

check the back of the assets to see if they have a connecting piece of metadata.

prize for the best story

Metascoop board

Metascoop learnings reuse can be creative automation driven by metadata could save time

reuse can be creative

automation driven by metadata could save time

Desired outcome To create authors who know why metadata matters believe it is important for them to do it find it easy remember IA training fondly

To create authors who

know why metadata matters

believe it is important for them to do it

find it easy

remember IA training fondly

Karen Loasby [email_address]