Comments on: happiness in managing metadata? http://www.iaplay.com/2008/06/13/happiness-in-managing-metadata/ because bored people make bad decisions Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:44:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: silver http://www.iaplay.com/2008/06/13/happiness-in-managing-metadata/#comment-3289 silver Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:18:02 +0000 http://www.iaplay.com/2008/06/13/happiness-in-managing-metadata/#comment-3289 I found you comment about flow interesting. One of the conditions essential for experiencing flow is feedback. The frustrations I experienced with the system was the lack of feedback we got from it. Shoveling in terms with no sense of improving the experience or utility for the end users. If i had been convinced that a difference was being made I think it would have a made a difference to my experience of the role. I found you comment about flow interesting. One of the conditions essential for experiencing flow is feedback.

The frustrations I experienced with the system was the lack of feedback we got from it.

Shoveling in terms with no sense of improving the experience or utility for the end users. If i had been convinced that a difference was being made I think it would have a made a difference to my experience of the role.

]]> By: admin http://www.iaplay.com/2008/06/13/happiness-in-managing-metadata/#comment-3290 admin Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:41:51 +0000 http://www.iaplay.com/2008/06/13/happiness-in-managing-metadata/#comment-3290 In the early days the focus was very much on ensuring it was an easy to use system for the journalists...so I guess the feedback from meeting them and talking to them. Translating the metadata into benefits for the true end-users was also going to be the challenge (but challenge is definitely part of flow) and you seem to have got us closest to that point(!) The other component of flow that seems significant is "A sense of personal control over the situation or activity". I knew, as one of the creators, I had to decide what to do with the system and what direction to take it in. If it wasn't achieving the goals then it was my job to fix that. In the early days the focus was very much on ensuring it was an easy to use system for the journalists…so I guess the feedback from meeting them and talking to them.

Translating the metadata into benefits for the true end-users was also going to be the challenge (but challenge is definitely part of flow) and you seem to have got us closest to that point(!)

The other component of flow that seems significant is “A sense of personal control over the situation or activity”. I knew, as one of the creators, I had to decide what to do with the system and what direction to take it in. If it wasn’t achieving the goals then it was my job to fix that.

]]> By: Michelle http://www.iaplay.com/2008/06/13/happiness-in-managing-metadata/#comment-3307 Michelle Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:06:39 +0000 http://www.iaplay.com/2008/06/13/happiness-in-managing-metadata/#comment-3307 I like how managing metadata feels like playing with words. I've just taken on the huge project of starting to formulate an enterprise taxonomy for my company. Do you have any favourite resources for reading up on taxonomy theory? My experience with metadata has been pretty informal up to this point and this is the first taxonomy I'll be creating from scratch. I like how managing metadata feels like playing with words.

I’ve just taken on the huge project of starting to formulate an enterprise taxonomy for my company. Do you have any favourite resources for reading up on taxonomy theory? My experience with metadata has been pretty informal up to this point and this is the first taxonomy I’ll be creating from scratch.

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