Swirling concepts in the vortext of sense-making and content creation
Preparing for my “Honey, I shrunk the Cat with Metadata” slide for a NEXT MBA upcoming lecture about data and dialogues, part of a Digital marketing track (thanks Gennady Polonsky for inviting me, and more about it soon), I found a beautiful way of seeing metadata in a diagram by Paul Otlet.
we compress things into concepts in our heads, then decompress them in a dialogue.
Contemplating it, I saw it communicating a scenario where we compress things into concepts in our heads, then decompress them in a dialogue 🙂 They enter the swirl of meaning which hapens in the public sphere where concepts need to be aligned (if seen from the above, a hermeneutic circle).
Then these concepts get into some kind of binder (I am saying some kind of binder, aware of the cool Introduction in Negroponte’s book Being Digital – The Paradox of a Book). having ended up in a, let’s call it corpus, then concepts get extracted, compressed again into the library card, or currently into love notes to the futre (read metadata).
And then all kinds of representation might follow. Of course, I think about that as the basics of connected content.
Image: Diagram by Paul Otlet representing a system of classification of human knowledge, 1934. Source: https://enseigner.modulo-info.ch/enjx2/grandes-thematiques/histoire_culture_num_2.html
Nullam ac urna eu felis dapibus condimentum sit amet a augue. Sed non mauris vitae erat consequat auctor eu in elit. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Mauris in erat justo. Nullam ac urna eu felis dapibus condimentum sit amet a augue. Sed non neque elit. Sed ut imperdiet nisi. Proin condimentum fermentum nunc. Lorem Ipsn gravida nibh vel velit auctor aliquet.Viverra tellus in hac habitasse platea dictumst vestibulum. Dictum sit amet justo donec enim diam vulputate ut pharetra. Elementum nibh tellus molestie nunc non blandit. Varius morbi enim nunc faucibus a. Semper feugiat nibh sed pulvinar. Pulvinar elementum integer enim neque volutpat ac tincidunt vitae semper. Porttitor leo a diam sollicitudin tempor.
Senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac. Eleifend quam adipiscing vitae proin sagittis. Faucibus pulvinar elementum integer enim neque volutpat. Nulla facilisi etiam dignissim diam quis enim. Fames ac turpis egestas integer eget aliquet nibh praesent tristique. Volutpat diam ut venenatis tellus in metus. Morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada. Placerat vestibulum lectus mauris ultrices eros in cursus turpis massa. Id diam vel quam elementum. Fringilla urna porttitor rhoncus dolor. Eu consequat ac felis donec et odio pellentesque diam. Eu feugiat pretium nibh ipsum consequat nisl. Vivamus at augue eget arcu dictum varius duis at. Porta nibh venenatis cras sed felis eget velit aliquet.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Tempor nec feugiat nisl pretium fusce id velit ut. Est ultricies integer quis auctor elit sed vulputate mi sit. Netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas sed tempus urna. Cursus metus aliquam eleifend mi in nulla posuere sollicitudin. Turpis egestas pretium aenean pharetra magna ac placerat vestibulum lectus. Eu tincidunt tortor aliquam nulla facilisi. Viverra nam libero justo laoreet sit amet. Duis at consectetur lorem.
Jean Kelly
July 18, 2018A pellentesque sit amet porttitor eget. Eget lorem dolor sed viverra ipsum nunc aliquet bibendum enim. Pharetra magna ac placerat vestibulum lectus mauris ultrices eros. Arcu dictum varius duis at consectetur lorem. Mattis nunc sed blandit libero volutpat.
Tiffany Clark
July 18, 2018Aenean commodo ligula amet porttitor eget. Eget lorem dolor sed viverra ipsum nunc aliquet bibendum enim. Pharetra magna ac placerat vestibulum lectus.