John Kunze
Senior Research Associate, Metadata Research Center
Drexel University
Would you like to significantly improve the dreadful inefficiency in how metadata consensus and communication have been done in the past 30 years? Come learn about YAMZ.net, a crowdsourced system for building long-lived vocabularies. Created by founders of Dublin Core metadata, YAMZ allows anyone to use and comment on others’ terms, add and edit their own terms, and rate others’ terms via reputation-based voting. YAMZ is a domain-agnostic repository of metadata and jargon terms that aims to become as useful and compelling to researchers as Stack Overflow has become to developers. The goal is to be a high-quality substrate of widely reviewed, well-tested candidate terms and definitions.