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Community Informatics (CI) — enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) — is a disciplinary hybrid — linking hardware, software and telecommunications as infrastructure (and superstructure); with the social sciences, social and community development; and the professional activities of law, politics, accounting and administration.
David Weinberger writes:
"So, in the Third Age of Order, all data is metadata. Contents are labels. Data is all surface and no insides. It's all handles and no suitcase. It's a folder whose content is just another label. It's all sticker and no bumper."
Or maybe, since all data is metadata, metadata has become meaningless. The ability — the desire — to search every aspect of the data in context hasn't made the data less substantive — handle, label, sticker — but questions the need for metadata itself.
A review of the Blackboard Content System by Dr. Helen Barrett. "I think this is a very useful system if a large University has installed Blackboard as a course management system. I especially like using WebDAV to store and update files, which provides a virtual drive on the computer desktop. The flexibility of the publication provides a shell for showcasing many types of documents."
Copied from elearnspace:
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Networked E-Learning: "This guide aims to provide a user-friendly introduction to IPR issues for e-learning content developers and managers. It is intended to act as a point of entry to the field of IPR in e-learning that will provide a good foundation for building expertise in the e-learning developer community. It deals with the basic aspects of IPR, especially copyright, in e-learning content development, with an emphasis on reusing third party materials to create new resources."