Google Scholar

04-December-2004

Just a quick note about Google Scholar - the recently released search engine for academic research.

I am not sure how good it is - the returns still seem to be changing and growing. Google Scholar will revolutionise research and within a few months be used by 90% of academic round the world.

More important from my point of view is that it shows the potential power of distributed and associated metadata. We need something like this for e-learning materials - able to aggregate data on materials use in practice.

This would overcome the present problem when to be standards compliant materials developers are required to fill in endless metadata fields.


Graham Attwell; 04-December-2004 14:07:07;