Dublin Core Education Application Profile Module

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Dublin Core EducationApplication Profile Module

• Sarah Currier
• Moderator, DCMI Education Community
• Product Manager, Intrallect Ltd
• Group Improv, Repository Fringe, 31 July 2008,
  Edinburgh, UK

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Overview of Session

• Brief overview of DC-Education Community (5 mins)
• Introduction to DC-Ed Application Profile work (5
  mins)
• Requirements gathering so far (15 mins)
• Group improv feedback on issues what are your
  priorities for educational metadata? (30 mins)

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• DCMI Education Community
• Co-Moderators Diane Hillmann (Cornell
  University) Sarah Currier (Intrallect Ltd)
• DC-Education Application Profile Task Group
• Lara Whitelaw (OU) co-ordinated use case
  gathering
• Website http//www.dublincore.org/groups/educatio
  n/
• Wiki http//dublincore.org/educationwiki/
• JISCmail list
• http//www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-EDUCATION.html

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• NOTE
• The DCMI Education Community is a forum for
  individuals and organizations involved in
  implementing Dublin Core and other learning
  resource metadata in the education domain. The
  objective of the Community is to promote
  interoperability within the domain through the
  use of standard metadata and consensus good
  practices.

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• NOTE
• The DCMI Education Community is a forum for
  individuals and organizations involved in
  implementing Dublin Core and other learning
  resource metadata in the education domain. The
  objective of the Community is to promote
  interoperability within the domain through the
  use of standard metadata and consensus good
  practices.

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• DC-Ed Application Profile
• Aim to provide a modular AP to support
  interoperable description of educational aspects
  of resources.
• Scope educationally significant properties
  available in Dublin Core any other educational
  properties, e.g. elements from the LOM.
• Out-of-scope will not define or give guidelines
  for usage of non-educational properties, or
  non-educational usage of properties.
• Modular this will (we hope!) enable people to
  plug in the AP with other APs they are using,
  e.g. the Libraries AP, the Scholarly Works AP, a
  modular accessibility AP, or a local AP.

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Dublin Core Application Profiles

• The DCMI Architecture Forum developed
• Dublin Core Abstract Model
• Singapore Framework for Dublin Core Application
  Profiles
• The Singapore Framework requires
• Functional requirements (mandatory)
• Domain model (mandatory)
• Description Set Profile (DSP) (mandatory)
• Usage guidelines (optional)
• Encoding syntax guidelines (optional)

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Singapore Framework

• The Singapore Framework for Dublin Core
  Application Profiles

http//dublincore.org/architecturewiki/SingaporeFr
amework/
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A Note on Vocabularies

• The Singapore Framework for Dublin Core
  Application Profiles

http//dublincore.org/architecturewiki/SingaporeFr
amework/
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A Note on Vocabularies

• The Singapore Framework requires
• Functional requirements (mandatory)
• Domain model (mandatory)
• Description Set Profile (DSP) (mandatory)
• Usage guidelines (optional)
• Encoding syntax guidelines (optional)
• The DC-Ed AP will recommend vocabularies for
  fields included in the Description Set Profile
  where vocabularies are used.
• The DC-Ed AP Task Group have already collated a
  number of vocabularies for Instructional Method
  and Resource Type
• http//dublincore.org/educationwiki/Vocabularies

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Singapore Framework

• The Singapore Framework for Dublin Core
  Application Profiles

describe the functions that the application
profile is designed to support, as well as
functions that are out of scope. form the
basis of evaluating the application profile for
internal consistency and for giving guidance on
the appropriateness of the application profile
for a given use.
http//dublincore.org/architecturewiki/SingaporeFr
amework/
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A Note About LOM and DC

• Joint DCMI/IEEE LTSC Task Force
• Grew out of Mikael Nilssons work on an RDF
  binding for the LOM, which drew heavily on early
  RDF work with Dublin Core.
• Became apparent that the LOM and DC had
  completely incompatible underlying models.
• DC started developing the DC Abstract Model
  (DCAM) based on RDF principles.
• Task Force is working on expressing LOM using the
  DCAM.
• Gives a de facto translation of LOM in RDF
  (somewhat lossy, so not strictly a binding).
• Will support use of LOM elements in DC-Ed
  Application Profile.
• http//www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/currier/
• http//dublincore.org/educationwiki/DCMIIEEELTSCTa
  skforce

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• DC-Ed Application Profile Use Cases
• Functional requirements
• We have the following general requirements
• Support for Resource Discovery
• Support for Educational Use of Resources
• Extensibility
• Jurisdiction Neutrality

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• DC-Ed Application Profile Use Cases
• Functional requirements
• What about more specific requirements?
• We asked for use cases from the community on
• What educational attributes or properties do you
  want to describe?
• What are your real world interoperability needs?
• What do your users want to search for / by?
• What else?

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• DC-Ed Application Profile Use Cases
• Use cases summary
• 48 use cases and scenarios gathered
• From 23 organisations
• Representing 6 countries (UK, US, Canada,
  Australia, New Zealand, Spain) 2 international
  organisations
• Most educational sectors (workplace training
  community/lifelong learning HE/FE primary
  secondary)

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• DC-Ed Application Profile Use Cases
• Use cases summary what properties? Table 1

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• DC-Ed Application Profile Use Cases
• Use cases summary what properties? Table 2

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• DC-Ed Application Profile
• Problem Areas
• Who says?
• Who created this review?
• Who says this resource meets that competency?
• Correlation
• How closely does this learning object correlate
  to that educational achievement standard?
• Educational level / context
• Blurred semantics
• Two different elements in the LOM three if you
  include Typical Age Range
• Is Higher Education a context or a level?
• What about granularity of descriptions?
• Are user-generated reviews, correlation
  statements, etc. separate resources?

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• DC-Ed Application Profile
• Some of these problem areas speak to the problem
  of the DC-Education AP Domain Model.
• Which we dont have yet.
• Weve looked at OAIS and FRBR.
• Where these leave off, our problems begin.
• NB Our thanks to the JISC Learning Materials AP
  Project
• http//www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/lmap/

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• Group Improv
• What to do now?
• NB I am here to get your input
• Discuss any further requirements you have, or
  further refinements on the existing requirements.
• Look at domain model issues?
• Discussion on Audience issues?
• Anything else arising folk want to discuss?
• Are there different groups here interested in
  different issues?- If so should we break into
  groups and report back, or all discuss everything
  together?

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Dublin Core Educational Work

• Please join the DC-Ed Community!
• E-mail me or Diane
• s.currier_at_intrallect.com
• dih1_at_cornell.edu
• Join the DC-Ed list to be notified of new
  developments and take part in discussions
• Thanks to Diane Hillmann, Lara Whitelaw,
  JISC-CETIS, and the DC-Education Community for
  their contributions so far, including to these
  slides.
• http//www.intrallect.com