Education.au has been engaged by the Australian Government’s Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) to provide advice on emerging technologies and the use of ICT in education. The first report of this service was Collaboration in Teaching and Learning and the latest, focusing on Web 2.0 and site blocking in schools, has just […]
November 4, 2008 – 10:11 am
The Metadata for Learning Opportunities (MLO) work attempts to harmonise different metadata specifications around Europe for describing and exchanging information about courses, e-learning offerings, and learning opportunities.
This project was initiated by Norway and had its basis in the Norwegian CDM (Course Description Metadata) work. The CDM specification has been adopted by French universities with some […]
August 28, 2008 – 12:09 pm
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 […]
August 19, 2008 – 10:17 am
SCOT stands for Social Semantic Cloud of Tags. The development of this work has been supported by the Science Foundation Ireland and is based on RDF technology and open web standards.
‘The SCOT ontology provides a model for expressing the main concepts and properties required to describe information for tagging activities (e.g., users, tags, resources, etc.) on […]
Well over a decade ago we started using metadata to enable us to manage online resources. In a sense we were transferring our organisational skills and know- how from the physical environment to the online environment. And in so doing instead of saying we are cataloguing or creating records about online resources we chose terminology […]
A recent report, Metadata for digital libraries: state of the art and the future directions, by JISC Tech Watch looks at the importance of metadata in a networked environment. A suggested barrier to the emergence of a single standard is the complex metadata requirements of digital objects. For example there is need for descriptive metadata, […]
For a long time now we have been using metadata to describe and classify resources so that others looking for then could find them. Our objective has been to create rich databases of quality resources, describe them well and provide both browse and search mechanisms for the end user to browse and search for […]
A recently published article, Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008, by Sarah Currier provides a snapshot of the current landscape of metadata application and development. The focus is on key international initiatives and what has been taking place over recent years in regards to harmonization, application and developments.Sections covered include:
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October 18, 2007 – 3:15 pm
JISC investigate the creation of a new application profile for learning materials.
A metadata scoping study is proposed by Phil Barker, JISC CETIS, that will draw on all relevant domains to identify domain specific issues that could inform managers of learning materials repositories. We can all appreciate that learning materials include a variety of resources including […]
A survey has been developed asking users for their feedback on the Dublin Core website. The survey seeks to find out how the DCMI site is used by users new to Dublin Core and those who are familiar with Dublin Core and its community.
I encourage you to take a minute and complete the survey so […]
