Hi Phil,
Phil Barker wrote:
> Just want to be clear what you're suggesting for UK LOM Core / IMS Best
> Practice Guide
Cool.
> Sarah Currier wrote:
>
>> 1. There are two things: keyword indexing, and classification. They are
>> different, serve different functions, and are both important.
>>
> ...
>
>> 3. ... Where keyword
>> indexing does involve a publicly available controlled vocabulary (as
>> opposed to an internal authority list as HLSI use) I think it would be
>> sensible to make this clear in the metadata as with other vocabularies
>> in the LOM.
>
> Bit difficult to "make this clear in the metadata as with other
> vocabularies in the LOM" if you're using either of the keyword elements
> since they have langString rather than vocabulary datatype, so you can't
> put in source-value pairs. Are you suggesting using the taxonPath
> element in the classification category? or does this conflict with your
> first point?
The last bit about TaxonPath DOES conflict with my first point. In
typical librarian fashion I didn't really get the technical ins and outs
so it sounds like what you are saying is that it's not technically
possible to declare the vocabulary of keywords within the LOM as it
currently stands because of the different datatype. Therefore it will
only be possible for someone to use a published controlled vocabulary,
but not to declare it (although they could name it in their AP which
they should make publicly available). So I guess if we're only looking
at what the LOM Core / Best Practice Guide can say about this, I would
suggest that they just make this point clear.
>> I wonder if there is some way of also making this clear in the IMS
>> Metadata Best Practice Guide?
>>
> I'll see whether we can look into that when moving from 1.3 Public Draft
> to Final.
Cheers! :-)
Sarah
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