Chapter 8
The point of this chapter was to look at the way in which metadata works in a business sense. It shows us what products, based on what we are looking at, we may also be interested in. Weinberger discusses the "infrastructure of meaning" to which he means the ultimate in miscellaneous - a database based on tags, links, and metadata.
As a DTC major, we should care about this because we will all be working with these forms of data at some point in the future. The majority of us are interested in design - and since the future is on the Internet and with technology, we will most likely be utilizing things like tags and metadata to assist us in our work.
Chapter 9
This chapter was about how the world has gone digital - from cameras to phones, we are utilizing organization in a new way as time goes on. Weinberger compares the utilizations of days past, when we took pictures with a film camera, went to a store to get our film developed, tossed the bad pictures, and stored the rest in a closet or under a bed for a future time. Now we can store thousands of pictures on one storage card on our camera, if we get photos developed its usually for Christmas cards, and if we don't, we can store them on our computers, on sharing sites like Flickr, or send them digitally to family and friends.
As a DTC major, we are affected because organization is the key for a successful design career. We need to be able to leave our client with a site, or design, or whatever, that is both usable yet also modifiable.
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Chapter 8: Yes, we'll be using the metadata. We will use it to help find clients, and tag things we make to help advertize our own work, strength and skills. How can we use the explicit metadata to our implicit advantage?
ReplyDeleteChapter 9: Organization is key, yet this chapter told us that the way we currently think of organization goes against what is natural. Personally, this made perfect sense to me, since I live in ordered chaos, but how will we have to change the way we think about organization to be more like the way that we think?
Chapter 8
ReplyDeleteJenn has a good point that the future is on the internet and with technology. It is important for everyone, not just DTC majors, to understand tagging and metadata, because that is what the future is bringing.
Chapter 9
Organizing information in the third order of order gives a designer the flexibility to easily make modifications to suit a client. In the realm of websites, clients expect that.
I really liked your point in your so what in chapter 8 about the design aspect of using metadata and what it will bring in the future. Tagging and the use of metadata will only continue to grow in importance as the amount of data we use continues to grow as well.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way about how we will be using these ting in DTC later. We need to know how to use metadata. Also, we need to know how to navigate through the unorganized internet and work our hardest to make our sites organized. Future clients will probably look at organization first.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious what you make of the intrinsic/extrinic delienation he makes? How might this factor into understanding/engaging in/with tagging?
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