• Three different approaches

MELT will include three different approaches to creating new and better metadata:

1. Expert or trained indexers will enrich some MELT content;
2. Teachers will be provided with ‘folksonomy’ and ‘social tagging’ tools so that they can add their own metadata to MELT content they have used;
3. Automatic metadata generation techniques and tools will also be applied to increase the quantity of metadata.

The key goal in the project is to create a new ‘metadata ecology’ involving all three elements.

• More about the technical infrastructure that underlies the MELT project. 
• Read our page of examples of social tagging tools.