Activities
Information design and creation activities (resource
providers)
Value added activities (aggregator)
Use of metadata (end user)
Find, Identify, Select, Obtain
Aggregated Environment
When taken out of their native environment, metadata may lose
crucial contextual information
Main activity to support is discovery
Something else about agg. env.
Change in Quality Requirements?
Think of quality in two ways
Quality to support local activity
Quality to support aggregated activity
To answer the question our title poses: Is quality metadata
sharable metadata
It depends…