DC-Education Working Group The DC-Ed Application Profile

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DC-Education Working GroupThe DC-Ed Application
Profile

• Jon Mason, EdNA
• Stuart Sutton, GEM
• Co-Chairs

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New Mission of the DCMI

• The mission of the Dublin Core Metadata
  Initiative (DCMI) is to make it easier to find
  resources using the Internet through the
  following activities
• Developing metadata standards for resource
  discovery across domains
• Defining frameworks for the interoperation of
  metadata sets
• Facilitating the development of community- or
  domain-specific metadata sets that work within
  these frameworks

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Activities

• Face-to-Face Meetings
• October 27-28, 1999 (Frankfurt)
• Scanned existing education metadata initiatives
  for common attributes
• Identified five categories of descriptive need
• Statements about users of a resource (audience)
• Statements about duration (use time) of a
  resource
• Statements about teaching learning processes
  characteristics of a resource
• Statements about process content standards to
  which a resource conforms
• Statements about quality assessments of a resource

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Activities (Continued)

• February 19-20, 2000 (Melbourne)
• Participants (DC community IEEE 1484.12
  community)
• Developed criteria for evaluation
• Reached consensus on four of the five areas of
  need (users, standards, duration,
  quality)
• Not enough time for the others
• Teaching/learning methods processes
• Refined audience facets (e.g., level)
• Quality (best left to local applications)
• All remaining on this coming years agenda
• Vocabulary Issues
• Resource Type

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Activities (Continued)

• Moving the Proposal
• Proposal to Melbourne participants (March 1-7,
  2000)
• Proposal DC-Education listserv (March 7-April 15,
  2000)
• Proposal to DC-General (April 15-April 30, 2000)
• Proposal to DC Executive Committee (April 30,
  2000)
• Tomorrowheaded for the DC-Usage Committee
• Decision Points Do the aspects of the proposal
  meet the appropriate element/qualifier criteria

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DC-Education Proposal

• Audience (element)
• Description A category of user for whom the
  resource is intended
• Mediator (element qualifier)
• Description An entity that mediates access to
  the resource
• Standard (Alternative mechanisms)
• Alternative 1
• standard (element)
• Description A reference to an established
  education or training standard to which the
  resource is associated
• identifier (element qualifier)
• Description An identifier (or notation) that
  serves to uniquely identify the standard being
  associated
• version (element qualifier)
• Description Information identifying the version
  of the standard being referenced

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DC-Education Proposal

• Alternative 2
• relation (element)
• conformsTo (element qualifier)
• Description A reference to an established
  education or training standard to which the
  resource is associated

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Context for Cooperation

• Past August 1999
• Current Resolution of 1st stage of an IEEE LOM
  MOU
• Cooperation the acknowledging of namespaces
• Emerging Harmonization of activities across two
  broad groups of initiatives in educational
  resources
• Gateways/resource discovery initiatives
  (primarily situated in the education community)
  e.g., EdNA (Australia) GEM (US)
• Specification initiatives for comprehensive
  e-learning solutions (situated in private sector,
  government higher education)
• Resource Packaging Discovery Agents (student,
  teachers, bus drivers) Events (sequencing of
  learning events, testing, grading, passing of
  transcripts etc. among course management shells
  enterprise systems)
• E.g., Ariadne (EU) Instructional Management
  Systems (US)
• Deficient description of the teaching/learning
  facets of resources

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DC-Education Proposal

• IEEE 1484.12/Ariadne/IMS (LOM)
• Endorsement
• typicalLearningTime (DC-Ed duration)
• Approximate or typical time it takes to work
  with this resource
• interactivityType
• The flow of interaction between this resource
  and the intended user
• interactivityLevel
• The degree of interactivity between the end user
  and this resource

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DCMI Process Ramifications

• Operation and jurisdiction of the Usage Committee
• Tentative Tiered Model
• Proposed?Conforming?Recommended?Obsolete
• Relationship between DC-Education Working Group
  proposals and other DC working groups
• Resource Type
• DC1 (and future work of the Type Working Group)
• Relation
• Proposed Relation element qualifiers
  (conformsTo)

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