Learning objects: how do we find them

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Learning objects how do we find them?

• Or
• The boring bit metadata
• Bev Blackwell
• Curriculum Materials Information Services
• 25 November 2004

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How do we find other curriculum resources?

• Library resources
• Websites

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What is metadata?

• Data about data
• Structured data about data
• Information about the meaning of other data
• Information about information
• Metadata refers to the use of a structured set
  of elements to describe an information resource
  

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Metadata schema

• USMARC
• HTML
• Dublin Core
• http//dublincore.org/documents/dces/
• AGLS, EdNA
• IMS
• http//www.imsglobal.org/metadata/index.cfm
  (Public draft specification)
• SCORM - Shareable Content Object Reference Model

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Dublin Core 15 elements

• Title
• Creator
• Subject
• Description
• Publisher
• Contributor
• Date
• Type

• Format
• Identifier
• Source
• Language
• Relation
• Coverage
• Rights

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IMS metadata
http//www.imsglobal.org/metadata/mdv1p3pd/imsmd_b
estv1p3pd.html1621637
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Metadata Application Profile

• Set of metadata elements that meet the
  organisations needs
• TLF
• http//www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/tlf2/sitef
  iles/images/documents/Metadata_Mandatory_Elements_
  1_1.pdf
• ScOT
• http//www.curriculum.edu.au/scis/partnerships/sco
  t.htm

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Curriculum organiser

• Mapping curriculum terms across state/territory
  systems

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What does it look like?

• XML eXtensible Markup Language
• http//www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/
• RDF Resource Description Framework
• http//www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/01/24/rdf.html

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Who assigns the metadata?

• Creators of learning objects
• Reviewers of learning objects
• Cataloguers

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Where will metadata for learning objects be
stored?

• TLF exchange
• School server
• Library system?
• Centrally

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Content management and Search systems

• Transparency of searching
• Thesaurus functionality