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Dear all,
You may remember that in March 2003 Jane Barton and I posted a draft
paper on metadata creation and quality assurance for digital learning
object repositories: "Quality Assurance for Digital
Learning Object Repositories: The Power of Metadata". We got much
feedback from this list, the UK-MEG list, the CETIS Metadata SIG list,
as well as a number of other e-learning and library forums. This issue
touched a cord with many colleagues around the world.
The paper was accepted for the research strand of ALT-C 2003, and we
updated and improved it based on the feedback we received, as well as
adding a bit of new data from the High Level Skills for Industry
project. The final version now has a home on the CETIS Metadata SIG
website (thanks to Phil and Ed for giving us this hospitality!) at:
http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/usage_survey (scroll down the page). The new
title is: "Quality Assurance for Digital Learning Object Repositories:
How Should Metadata be Created?"
If you have downloaded or printed off a copy of the draft paper, please
replace it with this one. You may now pass this one on to others, link
to it, or reference it. The correct reference is:
Sarah Currier and Jane Barton. To appear in: Cook, J. and McConnell, D.
(Eds.) (2003). Communities of Practice. ALT-C 2003 Research Proceedings.
Held 8-10 September, 2003, University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam
University
We are happy to hear further comments or ideas for taking the ideas in
the paper forward for further research. Responses either directly to
myself and Jane via my email address, or via the CETIS Metadata SIG list
(to keep the discussion in one place):
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cetis-metadata.html
We have also written a new paper expanded to include similar issues in
the ePrints/OAI/FAIR Programme community, which has been submitted to
the Dublin Core 2003 conference in Seattle; we haven't heard back about
this one yet.
Thank you very much to everyone who helped us with this paper.
Best wishes
Sarah
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Ms. Sarah Currier
Coordinator / Research Fellow
Educational Content Special Interest Group (EC-SIG)
CETIS (Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards)
Rm. 2.08B, Centre for Academic Practice, University of Strathclyde
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