I haven't followed this conversation so I don't
know if someone else has raised the issue but there
are reasons that secondary metadata is needed for accessibility
purposes. For example it is often the case that different
kinds of transcripts of resources are produced *after* the
orginal resource, separately and by separate organisations.
A transcript for a particular accessibilty need may be
produced by a person or an organisation with special
knowledge of that need and possibly with a real
situation to deal with (a learner rather than a course).
There is a need for Meta-data describing at least
the locations of transcripts and other kinds of
equivalent/alternative media for a resource. This
is subtly different from dynamic Meta-data with
only local use.
The mechanism for association of resource and transcript
is not completely clear yet. In IMS and CEN-ISSS WS-LT
we are looking at using the relation element of the
LOM and similar in DC. This doesn't solve all the
problems, such as how the original gets updated
when a transcript is created but we're working on it.
If anyone wants to feed ideas or experience into this
process please reply here or if you are able to
participate and actually do stuff please contact
me.
Andy Heath
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> Hi All
>
> I found your recent debate regarding secondary metadata fascinating
> particularly as I have to investigate it as part of a literature review for
> the JORUM+ project.
>
> I would be grateful if anybody could confirm this for me but strictly
> speaking secondary metadata is "used to describe Features of the description
> rather than the resource" and therefore is another term for 'metametadata',
> is this correct? So examples of secondary metadata would be creator and date
> of creation of the metadata record? With that in mind, the issue of
> subjective comments about resources being termed as secondary metadata is
> incorrect and should fields like the annotation field be included as a
> metadata field as this is undoubtedly going to lead to confusion on this
> subject?
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Steve
>
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andy
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Sheffield Hallam University
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