Metadata Quality in e-Learning: Garbage In - Garbage Out?

We've been talking quite a bit here — yelling, screaming, kicking and biting — about who is best equipped to manage the creation of metadata; as if any sane person really wants that job! Sarah Currier has recently published an article on the cetis website, Metadata Quality in e-Learning: Garbage In - Garbage Out?, which discusses the collaborative mode where metadata is jointly created by the educational practitioner and information scientist, and the strengths and weaknesses of such a model. She includes this uplifting quote from Simon Pockley's Metadata and the arts: the art of metadata:

"Just as the production of feature films has been characterized by the concept of assembly or montage, so we could consider metadata production to be the result of the combined efforts of quite separate skills. Perhaps it is time for the Metaphiles to talk more about the art of metadata, about how images and sounds can also be metadata and about the new literacy of this emerging form of expression."