[Sigia-l] Sanity Check, part 2: citations of "user centered metadata"

[MK Taylor]

I tried sending a question a couple of days ago but
somehow only the header showed up in the digest I got
for that day. So I'll try again...

I just got hired to manage all metadata services for a
small university (the University of Nevada, Reno) and
have been asked by my colleagues to look into the
topic of "user centered metadata." Other than one
specific mention from last fall's Dublin Core workshop
in Seattle, which cites faceted browsing/metadata as
an example), I've yet to find anything else in the
literature specifically mentioning this phrase. For
our purposes, we just want to have our development of
metadata resources and services follow a user-centered
approach. But having not found any literature which
specifically mentions this concept, I'm wondering this
a term that anybody else uses? And in what context?

Mil Gracias,

MK Taylor

**Oh and in regards to the whole thread about list
behavior - this sort of thing seems to happen on any
e-mail list or forum I belong to. Regardless of 
whether it's moderated or if the subject of interest
is professional or personal. I spent the evening
before the IA summit with some friends where part of
the evening was spent griping about the rude person
(who calls herself an IA) on a crafts related forum we
all belong to. It's unfortunate, but I've seen it
enough times during my lifetime on the Internet that
it doesn't really shock or bother me anymore. 

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