Everybody has submitted their assignments (make sure that you pressed the “publish” button!) But there are a few final things, more of a technical nature, but I think they may start to help us think about the connection between your assignments as well as the state of the soundscape in the GTA.

1) Before we meet next week, you should go back and remove your name and student numbers from post you submitted. I have this information through your account. 

2) WordPress allows entries to be divided into categories. Look at your post and identify it as belonging to the “Soundscape” category.

3) The site also allows you to tag your post in relation to particular key words. While categories are a general form of organizing content on a site, tags allow you to describe the content in more detail. Please enter six tags related to the content of your port (one of them should be “soundscape.”) You’ll note that if somebody else has used same tag on another post, the site will autocomplete the entry.

All of these very general habits that you should acquire when thinking about how to present material online. More theoretically, these are ways of thinking about metadata and its relationship to cultural analysis.

Update: For those interested, here’s a good crash course in what metadata is (although the emphasis is on personal metadata) and how it can be used.