Stephen Downes
Senior Research Officer,
National Research Council of Canada
Principles of Distributed Representation
Tuesday, August 09, 2005 | 9:30AM–11:00AM | Anderson Room (First Floor, Conference Center)
Session Type:
Professional Development
To a large degree, learning resource metadata is viewed as a single, static entity. An alternative approach will be presented here, one where metadata has multiple authors, is distributed across multiple locations, and depends on the resource being described and the point of view of the person reading it. Such metadata is an instance of distributed representation. This talk will describe the nature and properties of a distributed system, contrast it with current approaches, and provide development and deployment examples.