The annual DC conference this year was held in Mexico, 3-6 October and the theme was Metadata for Knowledge and Learning. Presentations are now available from the conference website. The main focus of the presentations is around vocabularies and abstract models. Stuart Weibel’s blog provides an excellent overview and discussion on key issues. The discussion on and importance of abstract models can be summarised by the following from Stu’s blog:
…we talk less about metadata standards and schemas, and more about abstract model, syntax, metadata vocabularies, and application profiles. Success is in the details, and there are lots of them to manage. It can’t be done without common underlying models.
A presentation that left an impression on me was by the DOTEINE Research Group ( University Carlos III of Madrid) on Development of a controlled vocabulary for learning objects’ functional description in an educational repository. The presentation outlines the key issues and tasks that need to be addressed in undertaking the task of developing an application profile.
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Felicitaciones
Por la importancia que continúan dedicándole a la estandarización de la web, mediante los metadatos.
En vista de que una buena parte del Mundo occidental maneja la lengua española, sería muy interesante y productivo que los escritos que emanen de estas reuniones se continúen traduciéndose a esta lengua.
Atentamente
Elisa
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Congratulations
By the importance which they continue dedicating to him to the standardization of the Web, by means of the metadatos.
In view of which a good part of the western World handles the Spanish language, he would be very interesting and productive that the writings that emanate of these meetings continue being translated to this language.
Kindly
Elisa
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