Packaging information for the Internet. Standardizing formats for content delivery. Wrap your content with metadata. This was the last design issue faced in my own “Sessions” project…make each lesson a Shareable Content Object (using the SCORM), to enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of Web-based learning content.

Yeah that’s the ticket.

But what is to be earned by sharing (see Microsoft). Maybe Web2.0 will be more object-ive.

January’s meeting for Social Media Club Phoenix will focus on the new Social Media Release. The technology behind the new format—dubbed microformats—appears to be another form of metadata (which seems to power the power-user’s web). Microformats are currently available for:

• hCard – for representing people, companies, organizations, and places,
• hCalendar – embedding distributed calendar events
• hReview – for embedding reviews of products, services, businesses, events, etc.
• hResume – microformat for publishing resumes and CVs

With so much edContent on the web, how to sort it out will remain in my sights.