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Resource Description and DiscoveryResource description covers both encoded descriptions (metadata) and human readable free text descriptions to support the discovery, retrieval, use and management of learning resources. This work relates to the Learning Resources and Activities area of the JISC eLearning Programme, and to the JISC Information Environment programme. Related topics: Repositories, Semantic Technologies, Open Educational Resources Articles
18 Jun 2013
Phil Barker
One of the issues around eTextBooks is how to describe them, specifically by way of educational metadata in ePub. That’s something that on the face of it shouldn’t be too difficult to address (at least to the extent that we know how to describe any educational resource). One thing that would be useful in demonstrating [...]
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13 May 2013
Phil Barker
Every year for the past dozen or so years the Department of Information Sciences at UCL have organised a meeting on ebooks. I’ve only been to one of them before, two or three years ago, when the big issues were around what publishers’ DRM requirements for ebooks meant for libraries. I came away from that [...]
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Resource Description and Discovery
24 Apr 2013
Phil Barker
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative aimed to help people discover useful learning resources by adding to the schema.org ontology properties to describe educational characteristics of creative works. Well, as of the release of schema draft version 1.0a a couple of weeks ago, the LRMI properties are in the official schema.org ontology.
Schema.org represents two things: 1, [...]
Semantic Technologies
Resource Description and Discovery
17 Apr 2013
Phil Barker
Lorna and I recently contributed a study on possible reforms to JACS, a study which is part of a larger piece of work on Redesigning the HE data landscape. JACS, the Joint Academic Coding System, is mainatained by HESA (the Higher Education Statistics Agency) and UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) as a means [...]
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17 Apr 2013
Wilbert Kraan
Last weekend, a motley crew of designers, students, developers, business and government people came together in Edinburgh to prototype designs and apps to help learners manage their journeys. With help, I built a prototype that showed how curriculum and course offering data can be combined with e-portfolios to help learners find their way.
The first official [...]
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Resource Description and Discovery EventsPast Events  Resource Description and Discovery ResourcesGuides to metadata
Date: Oct 2009
A listing of introductory guides to metadata in general, to the LOM in particular and to the use of the LOM.
Learning Materials Application Profile Scoping Study final report
Date: Sep 2008
The approach of the LMAP Scoping Study was to recognize that a typical
collection of learning materials is likely to include a wide range of
resource types (e.g. images, web pages, digital media, assessment items)
all of which require description.
What is the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting?
Date: Jan 2007
A briefing paper giving a short overview of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, which is simple technical option for catalogue and repository services to make their metadata available to other services, based on the HTTP and XML standards, resulti
What is IEEE LOM?
Date: Jan 2006
A briefing paper giving an introduction to the IEEE LOM, a data model used to describe a learning object and similar digital resources used to support learning.
What is IMS VDEX?
Date: Jan 2006
A briefing paper giving an introduction to the IMS specification for vocabulary description and exchange (VDEX).
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