....and for me, surprise surprise my main interest in secondary metadata
(which I have previously called "dynamic" metadata) is for assessments.
We're looking at attaching metadata to questions and assessments which
detail issues such as who has used a question and when (important when you
are delivering assessments for exam purposes), what score they got for it,
how long people took to complete an assessment, facility and discrimination
values for questions etc. I envisage this as very structured metadata - IMS
will be looking at things like this in the next version of the QTI spec -
though there will also be scope for the kind of free text you describe eg
"my students found this question extremely hard".
Niall Sclater
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From: The CETIS Metadata Special Interest Group
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Sent: 10 October 2003 15:18
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Subject: Re: Secondary Metadata Part1
Hi John
It's interesting that your conception of secondary metadata is restricted to
booklists, but I guess that shows a] our own ideas of what we would want to
pass on to others about our teaching practice and b] the rather vague nature
of what secondary metadata might be. The people I am working with see it as
a much more wide category of information and it reflects what they do
already so the resource lists ideas does not really describe what these
people want to do.
This is an area where people obviously have radically different ideas and
practices - so I think the idea of a simple yet crude solution might be the
way to go.
John
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