Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios
Project Information
The Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios project (hereafter referred to as M2) will advance work in the areas of student portfolio management, metadata generation, and contextual retrieval. Students need to manage an ever increasing amount of digital information disseminated during class sessions (e.g., lectures, whiteboard notes, slides, handouts, Web pages, emails, and exams) or self-authored as part of their educational experience (e.g., personal notes and term papers—including revisions).
We will develop a series of metadata schemas to help university students manage their individual educational portfolios. The metadata schemas will be based on learning scenarios and use cases identified for students in a field biology course. The metadata scheme will be interoperable with the Context Awareness Framework (CAF) currently being developed by UNC’s Information Technology Services (ITS). The CAF links a software agent on a student’s computer with ontologies and rule sets specific to the university environment. We will use the Microsoft Memex research kit to pilot test the effectiveness of M2 schemas and the CAF, and to explore annotation and automatic capturing of contextual metadata for personal educational information.
The long-term goal of our work is to advance contextual metadata activities for personal educational portfolio management and facilitate effective retrieval. The project is supported by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill partnership that includes the School of Information and Library Science, Metadata Research Center; ITS, and the Biology Department.
Project News
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Winter, 2007:
The Memex Project, including comments from Jane Greenberg, John Oberlin, and Dan Reed, are described in “You: Film at Eleven”, an article by Laura Granfortuna in the Winter 2007 issue of Endeavors: Research and Creative Activity.
February, 2007:
Scott Carlson quotes Jane Greenberg in his article: On The Record, All the Time: Researchers Digitally Capture the Daily Flow of Life. Should They?, a look at lifelogging tools and research in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 53(23): A30.
July 19, 2006:
Jane Greenberg presented Memex Metadata (M2) for Personal Educational Portfolio as part of the Memex Summit (Digital Memories Workshop) at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Memex Day.
July 18, 2006:
At the Microsoft Faculty Research Summit’s Memex Day, Michael Shoffner was recognized for his work on the Microsoft Research’s MyLifeBits software. See full article
August 14, 2006:
Dan Reed, vice chancellor for IT and CIO, and Suzanne Cadwell, computing consultant with Teaching and Learning, will participate in a 30-day TAP assessment of Microsoft’s MyLifeBits (MLB) software.
Both volunteers will use MLB Memex software and wear the Microsoft SenseCam to collect and review personal digital data during the 30-day period. This pilot focuses on obtaining basic usability feedback, and Reed and Cadwell will report periodically on the TAP News blog about their experience with the system.
Project Team
Principal Investigator
janeg [AT] ils [DOT] unc [DOT] edu
Co-Principal Investigators
UNC Technology Assessment and Planning
john_oberlin [AT] unc [DOT] edu
barreau [AT] ils [DOT] unc [DOT] edu
Team Members
earl [dot] bailey [AT] gmail [DOT] com
abe [AT] unc [DOT] edu
Library and Information Sciences Department,
University Carlos III of Madrid
emendez [AT] email [DOT] unc [DOT] edu
UNC Technology Assessment and Planning
nooj22 [AT] email [DOT] unc [DOT] edu