Memex Metadata M2 for Reflective Learning

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Memex Metadata (M2) for Reflective Learning

• Dublin Core 2006
• Manzanillo, Colima
• Jane Greenberg, Abe Crystal, Anuj Sharma, SILS,
  Metadata Research Center, University of North
  Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC/CH)
• Eva Méndez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• John Oberlin, Michael Shoeffner, ITS Technology
  Assessment and Planning. University of North
  Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Overview

• Show pretty pictures
• M2 (Memex Metadata)
• Motivation, goals, and design
• Metadata components
• Project accomplishments
• More images
• Conclusions and next steps

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Tulip tree Tulip-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
Dogwood (Cornus florida)
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Dogwood Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), UNC
Herbarium
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Plant Characters and Character States Leaf
Shape Leaf Margin
Serrate
Cordate
Entire
Fan-shaped
Crenulate
Palmate
DC/RLG,SDD-structured descriptive data, TDWG
taxonomic data, SKOS
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Learning Science Knowledge

• Traditional lecture/exam model, memory
• Engagement/active learning, self-monitoring
  (McCormick, 2003)
• Reflection
• Promotes critical thinking, a higher order of
  cognition, metacognition (Boud, Keogh Walker,
  1985)
• Information Technology Services

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21st Century students digital store

• Student resources generated individually or
  collaboratively, specifically for a class (e.g.,
  notes taking during class, paper drafts, project
  work).
• Standard course resources (e.g., professors
  slides and lecture notes, whiteboard notes,
  readings, assignments, quizzes, exams, course
  evaluations)
• Personal digital educational memories, captured
  via digital cameras, cell phones, email, IM
  (instant messenger) technology, and other
  pervasive technologies.

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Summary of Motivating Factors

• We want to stimulate reflection, metacognitive
  learning
• We want to be proactive in testing new
  technologies
• Help students deal with information overload
• Augment student memory

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The Memex As We May Think Atlantic Monthly
(1945)

• Vannevar Bush

memory ? augmentation theoretical analog
computer
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Microsoft Research (MSR) Digital Memories (Memex)
Program/ MLB
Memex shell, Tablet PC
SenseCam?
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Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios

• Jane Greenberg, Associate Professor, SILS
• Eva Mendez, Visiting Scholar, University Carlos
  III of Madrid
• John Oberlin, Associate Vice Chancellor, ITS
• Peter White, Professor Biology Dept.
• Deborah Barreau, Assistant Professor
• Michael Shoffner, Systems Specialist, ITS
• Abe Crystal, Ph.D. student, SILS
• Anuj Sharma, MSIS student, SILS
• Steve Seiberling, UNC Herbarium

• SILS/Metadata Research Center
• Information Technology Services (ITS)
• Biology Department

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Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios

• To advance work in the areas of student learning,
  contextual IR, and digital portfolio management
• Metadata issues
• What metadata is needed to support .?
• What is the most efficient and effective means
  generating metadata in this new learning
  environment?
• What metadata is required for an effective Memex?

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Project Design and Accomplishments

• Information behavioral study biology students
• Developed a working system for field testing
• Tablet PC, w/ standard softwareMSWord, OneNote,
  MLB, SenseCam, GPS device, Digital Camera).
• Pilot tested, usability study
• Developed a metadata framework
• Content, structure, context
• Emphasis on automatic metadata generation
• Extends UNC CAF (Context Awareness Framework)
• OWL ontologies (person, room, context agents)
• SOUPA Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and
  Pervasive Applications
• Metadata use for contextual retrieval, annotation

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M2 Metadata Framework
Context
Structure

• Where? (GPS, RFID)
• Who with? (Student, faculty, FOAF)
• What? (Class, study group, meeting, lab)

MLB/Student Digital Store (images, notes,
Webpage, SenseCam digital memories/course
material etc.)
XML OWL RDF SOUPA LOM/IEEE
Data types documents, happenings, people
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M2 Metadata Framework
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Base-component for Documents and Events

Key Generation methods A Automatically
generated D Derived H Harvested M Manually
generated
Requirement R Required O Optional
metadata The R/O designation only refers to
manually generated metadata .
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Metadata Log
Timestamp 06/05/06 120000 130000 14000
0
Datatypes and Events
Metadata
Event 1 BIO 54 001 Local Flora Coker Hall
Event 1 060506120245
Data type 1 060506124503
Data type 1 BIO 54 001 - Local Flora Coker
HallLecture Gymnosperms
Event 2 060506133011
Data type 2 060506141833
Data type 3 060506145100
Student Context Student Schedule (from Student
Central)

• Recording context Calendar Example Meeting
  at Davis Library Timestamp 060506133011

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SenseCam Images all Manual Shutter
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SenseCam ImagesAutomatic

• XXX
• XXXX

Specimen label/sign
TabletPC
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MLB Digital Memories Shell
Annotation
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Ranking Items
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Species 1
OneNote Images
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Conclusions and next steps

• Progress in understanding use of technology
• Excitement and conflicts
• MLB Limitations
• Pilot testing, refining our test methods
• Continue to develop evaluation methods for
  SenseCam use, MLB usability
• Reflective learning
• Metadata generation and use

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Team contact informationhttp//ils.unc.edu/mrc

• Metadata, overall - Jane Greenberg, Eva Mendez
• CAF - John Oberlin
• Botany - Peter White
• PIM - Deborah Barreau
• Behavioral, learning approaches
• Technology, CAF - Michael Shoffner

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• Publications and Presentations
• Barreau, D., Crystal, A., Greenberg, J., Sharma,
  A., Conway, M., Oberlin, J., Shoffner, M., and
  Seiberling, S. (in press). Augmenting Memory for
  Student Learning Designing a Context-Aware
  Capture System for Biology Education. ASIST 2006
  Annual Meeting  Information Realities Shaping
  the Digital Future for All. Austin, TX, November
  3-8, 2006. Poster Paper
• Barreau, D., Crystal, A., Greenberg, J., and
  Sharma, A. (forthcoming, August 2006). Now that
  we're talking, what are we learning? Personal
  Information Management in Context Workshop,
  poster presentation. 29th Annual International
  ACM SIGIR Conference Seattle, Washington, August
  10-11, 2006 http//pim.ischool.washington.edu/pim
  06/index.htm. Corresponding poster paper Barreau,
  D (2006), publication place to be announced.
• Crystal, A. (2006). Design research for a
  context-aware capture system to support biology
  education. Abstract for DIS 2006 doctoral
  consortium in Proceedings of the Conference on
  Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2006),
  University Park, PA, June 24-28, 2006
  http//ils.unc.edu/acrystal/crystal_DIS2006_docto
  ral_consortium_abstract_final.pdf.
• Greenberg, J., Shoffner, M., and Sharma, A.,
  (June 9, 2006). Memex Metadata (M2) Extending
  Microsoft MyLifeBits with Context Metadata. TAP
  Talks, Freaky Fridays http//aster.its.unc.edu/bl
  og/?p37.
• Greenberg, J., Oberlin, J., and Barreau, D.
  (forthcoming, July 2006). Memex Metadata (M2) for
  Personal Educational Portfolios. Microsoft
  Faculty Research Summit. Seattle, WA, July 19,
  2006.
• Greenberg, J., Sharma, A., Mendez, E., Oberlin,
  J., and Shoffner, M. (forthcoming, October
  2006). Memex Metadata (M2) for Reflective
  Learning International. Conference on Dublin Core
  and Metadata Applications, Colima, Mexico,
  October 3-6, 2006. 10 manuscript pages
• Mendez, E. and Greenberg, J. (forthcoming,
  2006) Metadata Ontologies for Organizing
  Students Memories and Learning Standards and
  Convergence Models for Content Awareness. Internat
  ional Conference on Multidisciplinary Information
  Sciences and Technologies, InSciT2006. Merida,
  Spain, October 25-28, 2006 http//www.instac.es/i
  nscit2006/. 5 manuscript pages