http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar/2013/01/30/author/ Gina's E-learning and Digital Cultures site - part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Wed, 09 Jul 2014 20:01:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar/2013/01/30/author/#comment-346 Jen Ross Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:13:22 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar/?p=653#comment-346 you can capture without typing - but capturing (at least as an image) might strip the writing of its 'machine readability' - and therefore take it out of the web in some meaningful way. I find this interesting in relation to metadata - when we talk about digital objects (e.g. digitisations of museum objects), should we be including their metadata - what makes them machine-readable? Is the metadata part of the digital artefact? you can capture without typing – but capturing (at least as an image) might strip the writing of its ‘machine readability’ – and therefore take it out of the web in some meaningful way. I find this interesting in relation to metadata – when we talk about digital objects (e.g. digitisations of museum objects), should we be including their metadata – what makes them machine-readable? Is the metadata part of the digital artefact?

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