April’s Meeting

A new team member joined the group for this week’s meeting. This was very useful as it allowed him to ask ‘innocent’ questions from a position of relative ignorance about the project and allowed the rest of us to clarify some of the confusions we have because we often see only our piece of the project. For example, we discussed the topic of Resource Discovery and I think we agreed (though my colleagues will no doubt correct my latest ‘confusion’) that the basic approaches to Resource Discovery – as it relates to Learning Objects in particular – are:

1. Searching any metadata (and in terms of the Streamline project, hopefully this means appropriate and reliable metadata that has been automatically generated).
2. Semantic analysis of content (Google Plus?)
3. Peer recommendation/Social Networking.

Now, it was worth attending the meeting just to clarify that … but it wouldn’t have been clarified without a project newbie!