Metadata is a very resourceful tool and can become even more resourceful If it could be read properly. The Immersion program made by Deepak and Daniel is a great example of showing this because it takes all the metadata and builds a understandable interface which it makes it easier to read. I like immersion for most of the statements they made they made but its also scary because big companies have the money to have a software such as immersion built to see their users data and habits, through doing such thing they can personalize advertisement according to the users metadata information. Although it is nice to see things advertised that we might actually like, I feel like letting companies have such information be at their finger tips without our consent is violating our rights and if letting them use this information increases theirĀ profit the least they can do is pay their users for using their metadata maybe then it might be aĀ ok. Now in the folksonomy articleĀ I agree with Jessica Dye when she states thats folksonomy isn’t a anarchy. The reason I agree isĀ because if a community sets the rules for using tags for categorizing data to be found easierĀ and the community follows the rules then Ā there isn’t need for a higher authority to keep everyone following the rules and personally I like the use of tags.
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These readings opened my eyes because before all I ever knew about metadata was that it was tags embedded into digital files (ex.location of where you took a picture). But after reading chapter 4 I agree we should let go of folksonomy. All I’ve ever known was keyword search because I thought it made sense to search up pages/articles that include the words Iām looking for. But many times I’ve been led on a goose chase where I was getting results for something unrelated to my subject but because the ākeywordsā were there it made itās way to my results. We do a form of metadata now called hash-tagging. I think this system sort of provides more efficient results because the content is self categorized (or tagged) using the ā#ā key. So instead of looking up words you can look up topics, subjects, etc.