Hi Mark,
your comments are fair enough ... for when LOM records are part of a
repository. But many people are using the LOM just for cataloguing
resources which live elsewhere. Some of these catalogues are already quite
large, and you can't assume that all the constituent parts will have been
catalogued seperately.
Phil.
Mark Power wrote:
> Far too simple to ever take off that I think Steve ;-) what would people
> be able to argue about then?
>
> Going back to what Duncan said about a user being able to search for
> pdf's or suchlike, using the technical.format element - I agree but
> surely it's only going to be really useful when you're dealing with an
> incredibly well populated repository....which I personally think we're
> quite a way off from.
>
> Steve, I like your idea but then of course I think 'well, you need to
> include copyright information' and of course as soon as you start to
> think something like that then the snowballing begins (educational
> context...)
>
> Back to the technical element for a minute though. If a learning object
> being imported into a repository consists of say, 3 webpages, a
> powerpoint presentation and a pdf then the creator will have to add
> metadata for each resource (including technical.format) yes? what goes
> in at top level, package level? And if a repository doesn't search
> through metadata included at such levels (organization, resource, asset
> [possibly] then it's pointless as you won't be able to find them anyway...
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
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