Hi Ed,
Thanks for your comments. E-copyright is certainly a very important
issue and one that we all need to be aware of.
> I have just attended a conference on E-copyright and was having a think
> about the implications for metadata. Maybe I am being a bit pedantic
> but, for people implementing the UKCMF, I was wondering if guidelines
> should be given to explain the following:
>
> 1) The author of a piece of work has the moral right to be identified as
> the author so that it may be important to try and include the author in
> the 2.3.contribute where possible.
2.3 contribute.role is a mandatory element within the UKCMF and the
guidelines currently state:
"For commercially sourced learning objects or those created by
institutions or projects the minimum requirement is 'publisher'. For
objects created by teachers or lecturers 'author' should be used to
denote the person who created the object and/or 'publisher' for their
institution/employer."
I'm currently revising the guidelines and will clarify this issues further.
> 2) Since all materials that have been created on a tangible medium are
> copyright protected (unless that right has been waived) then 6.2
> copyrightandotherrestrictions should have "yes" as a default setting and
> 6.3 should say "This resource is copyright protected" by default.
Again 6.6 copyrightandotherrestrictions and 6.3 description are
mandatory within the UKCMF for exactly this reason. We don't mandate
may default values within the framework but this is certainly something
we could consider.
Bye
Lorna
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Lorna M. Campbell
Assistant Director
Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS)
Centre for Academic Practice, University of Strathclyde
+44 (0)141 548 3072
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/
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