Hello All,
I would like to let you know of a new Jiscmail list for people who are
involved describing resources using metadata schemas based on the IEEE
Learning Object Metadata standard (the LOM). It should be relevant people
cataloguing online learning resourcs and people writing the guidelines for
this or managing the metadata creation process. It is specifically not for
technical issues such as XML bindings, repository interopability etc.
The new list is called lom-cataloguing, and details on how to join it
are here: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/lom-cataloguing.html
This list came about after a workshop in London last year which brought
together staff from a variety of projects which are using the LOM to
catalogue resources, where it became evident that (a) many untrained and
non-LIS qualified staff were employed in such activities, and (b) they
needed support and help, and to be in contact with each other. The list
will also include those with cataloguing and other LIS backgrounds working
in the area. I don't want the new list duplicate areas which are better
covered in the various LIS Jiscmail lists, so I'm hoping that if this
starts to happen someone will pipe up to say there are a better places to
hold discussions about general cataloguing and library practice.
I've sent this list up in my role a CETIS metadata SIG coordinator, for
more information on that see http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/ and
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cetis-metadata .
Best wishes, Phil
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Phil Barker Learning Technology Adviser
ICBL, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Mountbatten Building, Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
Tel: 0131 451 3278 Fax: 0131 451 3327
Web: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/
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