There are a number of metadata application profiles around and some more widely used than others. For example the edna metadata standard (considered an application profile) has been in existence for over ten years now and is still used, or parts of it, by educational projects to describe and organise resources. What I find an essential part of any metadata application profile is the accompanying guidelines that instruct in the best possible way of applying the metadata elements or as some people refer to them as fields or descriptors.
My point here is that just as important, if not more, are the guidelines that accompany application profiles. Two metadata profiles that have developed good sets or instructions with real examples of how metadata is applied to a range of resources are Vetadata and ANZ-LOM.
Vetadata is the metadata application profile developed to describe manage and discover primarily VET learning resources. This application profile has developed two sets of guidelines, one for the developers of metadata systems and one for the practitioners engaged in applying metadata to learning resources. These guidelines are available from the Australian Flexible Framework site.
More recently, guidelines along similar lines have also been released for ANZ-LOM, the metadata profile used to describe The Learning Federation school curriculum resources.
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