Hello David, hello all,
Firstly, for those of you who weren't at the Manchest X4L meeting and
haven't heard Lorna talking about it, here's what the UKCMF is:
--quote--
X4L UK Common Metadata Framework.
This application profile of the IEEE's Learning Object Metadata standard
has been developed by Learning and Teaching Scotland and CETIS for use by
the X4L Programme. This framework represents a common minimum set of
elements that all projects can use in order to promote interoperability.
Projects are free to add other LOM elements and vocabularies to this subset
in order to meet their own specific requirements. Although use of
X4L/UKCMF is not mandatory for X4L projects, its adoption is strongly
recommended to help achieve the aims of the programme as a whole. The X4L
UKCMF will be implemented by the Jorum+ X4L development bay.
--unquote--
The first complete draft was sent around the group of people who had had
input to the development on Friday last week, and the first public airing
was Monday this week. I don't know the timetable for further dissemination,
but am trying to find out.
There will be a presentation on the draft UK CMF at the next MDR SIG
meeting, but more on that in a short while!
Phil.
David Pattern wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Many thanks to everyone at the workshop yesterday in Manchester - it
> certainly helped clarify many of the things I'd been worrying about!
>
> The UKCMF sounds to be exactly what I'm after so it would be really handy to
> know what the possible time scales involved with the document will be, so
> that I can plan ahead with the remaining development on our project.
>
> When would you estimate that the document will move on from draft status,
> and would it be wise for me to begin implementing it whilst it was still in
> the draft stage? I'm guessing that some of the elements chosen might be
> more contentious (and possibly more likely to change during the debating
> phase) than others - would the draft document highlight these elements?
>
> Many thanks in advance :-)
>
> Dave Pattern
>
>
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