The draft RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile makes use of the UK Educational
Levels described at
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/ukel/
You'll notice that the value for each level is a string of the form
levelN
where 'N' is '1'-'12'.
I'm now wondering if this is a mistake... if so, now would be a good time
to change it because, I assume, there hasn't been much real usage of this
stuff yet. The problem is that where metadata records using these values
are 'dumbed-down' to something simple like unqualified DC, the metadata
record will only contain something like
<dcterms:educationLevel>level1</dcterms:educationLevel>
and therefore the end-user is likely to get presented with something like
Education Level: level1
which doesn't give him or her much context to go on.
I now think it would be better for the string values to take a form like
UKEducationLevelN
or
UK Education Level N
which makes it more obvious to the end user what they are getting even if
they only see the value string. The only real cost I can see is a few
more bytes being carried in the instance metadata.
Thoughts?
Andy
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