Wow, sounds like everyone's having a lot of fun with their i-pods, and
that folks are about as geeky with their music as I am with mine. We may
need professional help! However, from a (tongue in cheek) records
management perspective, a few questions have occurred to me during this
conversation about buckets....
If metadata tags consist of categories such as genre, artist, beats per
minute - or anything else - what's the difference of that type of system
and a file classification system - other than one is laid out
hierarchically, and the other utilizes metadata tags? Don't both still
use searchable key words of some kind? Doesn't the necessity of
assigning a value to the item in question still exist? It doesn't appear
to me that there is a lot of difference here because the key challenge
is.... the act of assigning a value to the item in question. While I'm
sure I could download metadata to describe my wife's Partridge Family
collection (I know a bucket I'd like to throw that stuff into....) I'm
not sure if there is a records site that can automatically download
metadata tags to that report I recently wrote at work.
Also, what one person calls things in their big bucket may not be what
someone else calls stuff. For example, I would probably call anything by
KC and the Sunshine Band "INFUWCSCNY (Insufferable Noise Foisted on an
Undeserving World Coming Soon to the Casino Nearest You)" while others
might call it "Disco" or even "Nostalgia", yet my collection of Frank
Zappa would be found under "Genius" while others might call it "MSWRKDB
(Music Significantly Worse than Road Kill with Dirty Bits)". What if we
start sharing buckets? Someone may say tomato and I may say red round
vegetable (or is it a fruit?).... Is a controlled vocabulary
unnecessary? If you gave your metadata driven machine to someone else,
would it make any sense to them?
Quote: "Do we throw out metadata then? Of course not. Metadata can be
quite useful, if taken with a sufficiently large pinch of salt...."
http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm#1
Dwight Wallis, CRM
Records Administrator
Multnomah County Fleet, Records, Electronics, Distribution and Stores
(FREDS)
1620 S.E. 190th Avenue
Portland, OR 97233
Phone: (503)988-3741
Fax: (503)988-3754
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