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By Stephen Downes
August 3, 2004
*Metadata for Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaborative Learning
Environments
<http://phenom.educ.ualberta.ca/n/papers/atels2YasuhisaNorm.doc>*
This paper "considers the use of... communication and collaboration
technologies in educational settings and software systems.... [and]
identifies specifiable uniformities in the structural and behavioural
characteristics of these systems, and then uses these uniformities as a
basis for its proposed data or metadata model." This is an important
first step in consideration of one of the areas of metadata not well
established by learning object and associated metadata: collaboration.
This paper, and the next, should give the guardians of IMS and IEEE-LOM
some pause for thought. By Yasuhisa Tamura, Norm Friesen, Toshio Okamoto
and Rory McGreal, August 3, 2004 [Refer
<http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/refer.cgi?item=1091566614&sender=>][Research
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*International LOM Survey: Report
<http://phenom.educ.ualberta.ca/n/papers/LOM_Survey_Report.doc>*
Important survey of actual learning object metadata instances received
from ARIADNE Project (EU), the LTSN (UK), Metalab (France), CELTS
(China) and CAREO (Canada). The upshot of the findings are ironically
revealed in a limitation the data imposed on the study itself: though a
much larger survey was planned, it proved to be impossible to analyse
the contents through automated means - this from data which is
specifically intended to be machine-readable! The study showed that most
of the fields in IEEE-LOM are not used and that some fields, such as
those requiring vCard data, were particularly problematic. MS-Word
document. By Norm Friesen, July 27, 2004 [Refer
<http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/refer.cgi?item=1091565952&sender=>][Research
<http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/research.cgi?item=1091565952>][Reflect
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