Meaning, Use and Metadata
Quote: "Meaning is use. What the term means is determined by how it is used. Do you want to know the meaning of the term ? Then you go and look at how it is used...Right now, people are trying to determine the meaning of, say, a learning object, a priori by means of attaching metatags."
Comment: The deeper we get into technology, the more we need to start dialoguing about the types of things that people have dialogued about for centuries. The capacity of a computer to intelligently communicate meaning is still mainly a theory. XML (data format standard) and RDF (semantics and meaning of data) (see this graphic)help, but language and understanding (especially on a level required to communicate complex and varied meanings) are currently incapable of being accurately portrayed in computer language.
