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use the BEI terms was a considerable effort which taught me how librarians construct meaningaround the education d<strong>is</strong>course - a derivation of N 3 . T<strong>here</strong> were <strong>time</strong>s when I thought th<strong>is</strong> wasoften inaccurate or baffling - "why would you refer <strong>to</strong> x as th<strong>is</strong>"?At the same <strong>time</strong> I was having <strong>to</strong> read about SQL technology <strong>and</strong> the Microsoft asp.net solutionsince these were the technologies that were driving the TTRB. In learning th<strong>is</strong>, I also came <strong>to</strong>appreciate the MSN search technology <strong>and</strong> how it made use of real word searching as opposed <strong>to</strong>the more traditional meta-data searches employed <strong>by</strong> the BEI. At the <strong>time</strong>, Microsoft werehaving <strong>to</strong> come <strong>to</strong> terms with the explosion on<strong>to</strong> the internet of Google with its much morepowerful <strong>and</strong> yet apparently less complex search <strong>to</strong>ol. Windows Live Search or Bing as it now <strong>is</strong>known was a very pale imitation of that which was 'Google’s m<strong>is</strong>sion... <strong>to</strong> organize the world‘sinformation <strong>and</strong> make it universally accessible <strong>and</strong> useful.' (seehttp://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/).ActionsDuring th<strong>is</strong> illustrative moment I spent a lot of <strong>time</strong> l<strong>is</strong>tening - actively. I also pract<strong>is</strong>ed a lot inthe quiet of my office or home office. Mike <strong>and</strong> I ended up sharing a room <strong>and</strong> we coconstructedknowledge <strong>and</strong> underst<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>by</strong> working on the system <strong>to</strong>gether <strong>and</strong> sharing bits ofw<strong>is</strong>dom <strong>and</strong> intelligence that we were acquiring simultaneously. Mike was already in<strong>to</strong> schemas<strong>and</strong> unders<strong>to</strong>od the 'semantic web' well enough <strong>to</strong> be able <strong>to</strong> draft a first pass of what the TTRBschema would be - a working example of N 3 . Th<strong>is</strong> was useful peer-<strong>to</strong>-peer learning as I wasable <strong>to</strong> replicate th<strong>is</strong> in the context of building a meta-data schema for RE-Net (version 3) - aworking example of N 4 . That in turn led me in<strong>to</strong> the more complex <strong>and</strong> business-oriented worldof data analys<strong>is</strong> since, again, over the horizon, came the as<strong>to</strong>n<strong>is</strong>hing <strong>to</strong>ol, 'Google Analytics'.214Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thes<strong>is</strong> (Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 2012)

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