Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios

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Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios
Memex Day Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
2006 July 19, 2006 Jane Greenberg, Associate
Professor and Director, SILS Metadata Research
Center ltMRCgt School of Information and Library
Science University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill janeg_at_ils.unc.edu
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Overview

• Show you images
• Project goals
• Project design and accomplishments
• More images
• Challenges
• Next steps

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Tulip tree Tulip-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
Dogwood (Cornus florida)
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Dogwood Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), UNC
Herbarium
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Plant Characters and Character States Leaf
Shape Leaf Margin
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Memex Metadata (M2) for Student Portfolios

• SILS/Metadata Research Center ltMRCgt
• Information Technology Services (ITS)
• Biology Department

• Jane Greenberg, Associate Professor, SILS
• John Oberlin, Associate Vice Chancellor, ITS
• Peter White, Professor Biology Dept.
• Deborah Barreau, Assistant Professor
• Michael Shoffner, Systems Specialist, ITS
• Abe Crystal, Ph.D. student, SILS
• Anuj Sharma, MSIS student, SILS
• Steve Seiberling, UNC Herbarium
• Eva Mendez, Visiting Scholar, University Carlos
  III of Madrid
• Alan Weakly, Biology Dept.

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M2 Goals and Motivating Factors

• Explore student portfolio management
• Integrate new technology and learning science
  knowledge
• Reflective learning (3 minute paper, journaling)
• Generate and use metadata efficiently and
  effectively
• Metadata/tagging/annotation supports retrieval
  and other functions (preservation, management,
  use provenance)
• Poor metadata
• Context awareness

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Project Design and Accomplishments

• Developed a working system for field testing
• Tablet PC, w/ standard softwareMSWord, OneNote,
  MLB, SenseCam, GPS device, Digital Camera)
• MLB pre-populated with Course materials, Web
  pages, etc.
• Pilot tested MLB and SenseCam technology
• Developed an usability study pending IRB
  approval
• Conducted an exploratory behavioral study
• Ethnographic study of approaches to information
  in biology education (Manual note-taking
  reliance on class Website)
• Developed a modular metadata scheme
• Interoperable with CAF
• Begin to study metadata creation and use
• Publications and presentations

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Metadata Development continued

• Modular scheme addresses three classes context,
  object types, and formats
• Extends UNC CAF (Context Awareness Framework)
• Base-level object type component identifies
  metadata for documents and events
• Majority of element automatically generated

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Base-component for Documents and Events

Key Generation methods A Automatically
generated D Derived H Harvested M Manually
generated
Requirement R Required O Optional
metadata The R/O designation only refers to
manually generated metadata .
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Usability Study Design

• Participant profile questionnaire
• Tutorial to learn the use of Tablet PC, SenseCam
  camera, and MLB
• Use these technologies to perform a field task in
  the Coker Arboretum on the UNC campus.
• Complete a series of tasks using MLB (e.g.,
  create a collection, annotate images,
  search/answer question etc.)
• MLB pre-populated with Course materials, Web
  pages, etc.
• Build a plant log, as part of a plant
  identification exercise
• Complete an interview about the uses of the
  tested software and technology

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SenseCam Images all Manual Shutter
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SenseCam ImagesAutomatic

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Specimen label/sign
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SenseCam Images? Manual Shutter

• XXX
• XXXX

Automatic ?
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OneNote Images
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Challenges

• Low quality of SenseCam images
• Complaints from users even when taking in to
  account that it is only a prototype.
• MLB installation has been labor-intensive still
  problems requiring resolution
• .excitement among students involved in testing,
  other disciplines, and UNCs technology advisory
  groups

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Next Steps

• Pilot testing
• Usability study
• Continue to develop evaluation methods for
  SenseCam use, MLB usability, and reflective
  learning
• NSF Proposal Technology-Supported Reflection
  and Metacognition for Biology Education, NSF
  CCLI Program
• BioMemex

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Team contact informationhttp//ils.unc.edu/mrc

• Metadata, Learning approaches, etc. - Jane
  Greenberg, janeg_at_ils.unc.edu
• CAF - John Oberlin, john_oberlin_at_unc.edu
• Botany - Peter White, pswhite_at_unc.edu
• PIM - Deborah Barreau, barreau_at_ils.unc.edu
• Behavioral, learning approaches - Abe Crystal,
  acrystal_at_email.unc.edu
• Technology, CAF - Michael Shoffner,
  michael_shoffner_at_unc.edu

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• Publications and Presentations
• Barreau, D., Crystal, A., Greenberg, J., Sharma,
  A., Conway, M., Oberlin, J., Shoffner, M., and
  Seiberling, S. (in press). Augmenting Memory for
  Student Learning Designing a Context-Aware
  Capture System for Biology Education. ASIST 2006
  Annual Meeting  Information Realities Shaping
  the Digital Future for All. Austin, TX, November
  3-8, 2006. Poster Paper
• Barreau, D., Crystal, A., Greenberg, J., and
  Sharma, A. (forthcoming, August 2006). Now that
  we're talking, what are we learning? Personal
  Information Management in Context Workshop,
  poster presentation. 29th Annual International
  ACM SIGIR Conference Seattle, Washington, August
  10-11, 2006 http//pim.ischool.washington.edu/pim
  06/index.htm. Corresponding poster paper Barreau,
  D (2006), publication place to be announced.
• Crystal, A. (2006). Design research for a
  context-aware capture system to support biology
  education. Abstract for DIS 2006 doctoral
  consortium in Proceedings of the Conference on
  Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2006),
  University Park, PA, June 24-28, 2006
  http//ils.unc.edu/acrystal/crystal_DIS2006_docto
  ral_consortium_abstract_final.pdf.
• Greenberg, J., Shoffner, M., and Sharma, A.,
  (June 9, 2006). Memex Metadata (M2) Extending
  Microsoft MyLifeBits with Context Metadata. TAP
  Talks, Freaky Fridays http//aster.its.unc.edu/bl
  og/?p37.
• Greenberg, J., Oberlin, J., and Barreau, D.
  (forthcoming, July 2006). Memex Metadata (M2) for
  Personal Educational Portfolios. Microsoft
  Faculty Research Summit. Seattle, WA, July 19,
  2006.
• Greenberg, J., Sharma, A., Mendez, E., Oberlin,
  J., and Shoffner, M. (forthcoming, October
  2006). Memex Metadata (M2) for Reflective
  Learning International. Conference on Dublin Core
  and Metadata Applications, Colima, Mexico,
  October 3-6, 2006. 10 manuscript pages
• Mendez, E. and Greenberg, J. (forthcoming,
  2006) Metadata Ontologies for Organizing
  Students Memories and Learning Standards and
  Convergence Models for Content Awareness. Internat
  ional Conference on Multidisciplinary Information
  Sciences and Technologies, InSciT2006. Merida,
  Spain, October 25-28, 2006 http//www.instac.es/i
  nscit2006/. 5 manuscript pages