You can now find the UKCMF under the "guides" section of the CETIS METADATA
website: http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/guides/
Phil.
Phil Barker wrote:
> 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.
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