Dear all,
Happy New Year to you all! I've prepared the December digest, and have been
adapting the group's web page at: http://cetis-metadata.lboro.ac.uk/ to
reflect the news, as proposed at our last meeting. I will be adding January
news items to this page as soon as anything of interest occurs, and then
collating them all for the January digest report.
At the very end of December there was some further discussion on the
LTSC-LOM list about the intended end user role element, prompted by Daniel
D. Suthers.
The issue of LOM recommending an internationally acceptable vocabulary, or
a list of localised vocabularies for using with the "intended end user
role" element was raised. Recommending an internationally acceptable
vocabulary would benefit interoperability whilst restricting functionality
for database users, while a localised vocabulary would do the opposite. At
present there is no internationally acceptable vocabulary, and there is no
time for one to be developed, so it seems that this is an issue to be
addressed again at a later date.
One of Daniel D Suthers' suggestions was for localised vocabularies to be
spread amongst wider communities, to further interoperability in that way.
Erik Duval posted to the list to suggest that the CEN/ISSS Learning
Technologies Workshop (http://www.cenorm.be/isss/Workshop/lt/Default.htm)
is being developed as a "Repository of taxonomies/vocabularies for a
European Learning Society". The intent of this action is "to collect and
organize a register of taxonomies and vocabularies relevant to a European
learning society, via an on-line repository".
Note: Lorna Campbell has been posting to this list about the progress of
the CEN/ISSS vocabularies work:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0110&L=cetis-metadata&F=&S=&P
=59
Another issue raised was that of describing the pedagogy of a resource
through the "interactivity type" element, in a more detailed way than the
LOM currently allows, perhaps through using the GEM vocbalary.
(http://www.geminfo.org/Workbench/Metadata/Vocab_Pedagogy.html) Stuart
Sutton suggested that this is "a great arena for vocabulary development at
both the local jurisdiction and international levels".
We are still awaiting the IMS Learning Resources Metadata v1.2.2 documents,
although the changes can be ascertained through the Schema updates
document. (http://www.imsproject.org/metadata/mdv1p2p2/imsschemaupdates.html)
best wishes
Jenny
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Jenny Slater,
LTSN Engineering, Loughborough University,
Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK
Tel. (+44) 01509 227 176
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