It’s less than 24 hrs until I start a 2.5 week journey spanning a couple of days in Wellington attending Webstock 12 followed by two weeks at The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney getting stuck in to my Paul Reynolds Scholarship opportunity. Am I getting excited? You bet! Until now it’s all felt surreal and distant – but as I blog about this on the eve of my travels it’s now starting to feel very close [...]

2012 is shaping up to be an interesting and exciting year – and I don’t mean all that Mayan hype! I’m starting the month by moving from the Dunedin Public Libraries marketing team and joining the Dunedin City Council’s web team. The web team has in turn been incorporated in to a council wide communications and marketing team as part of some internal restructuring undertaken at the end of 2011. While I’ll still look after [...]

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a project to create a common vocabulary for describing educational content. It was formed after the big three search vendors (Google, Bing and Yahoo) announced in June that they were working on a metadata framework that would be common across all search platforms and aid search engine indexing. The idea behind the LRMI is to establish a “a lightweight vocabulary that sits on top of existing tagging schema” [...]