Hi Fred.
JORUM does indeed use a team of cataloguers which really makes things
easy for contributors who don’t want to worry about Metadata.
We're doing full evaluation of our workflows which I will post when
it's been done.
One thing I've been pleasantly surprised about since the launch of the
contribution service of JORUM has been how many content creators who
I've met and spoken to who want to create detailed Metadata records.
This was something I also found in a previous job I had working with an
institutional repository. My experience is that you'll get a range in
metadata quality so I really think you need a device to flag bad
metadata . Cataloguers are one way but there are others.
Having said that I think above all you should try to keep it simple for
the contributors (which JORUM can do by using cataloguers), get
feedback from contributors and users and don’t underestimate the
resources and effort it takes setting a repository up.
Good luck!
Kenny
Quoting Fred Riley <[log in to unmask]>:
> Deborah
>
> We don't have a repository up and running as yet, although I'm
> currently developing a small-scale local LO database, but we've been
> planning and thinking about this on and off for some time. The
> default metadata schema for learning objects appears to be the UK LOM
> Core (http://www.cetis.ac.uk/profiles/uklomcore), still at version
> 0.2 but being worked on feverishly going by the occasional eruptions
> of activity on this list. It's the schema being used by JORUM
> (www.jorum.ac.uk). The spec document is a bit dry and aimed at
> professional cataloguers from what I can see, but as the LOM is, I
> believe, closely descended from CanCore you could use some of the
> user-friendly guidelines on that site
> (http://www.cancore.ca/en/guidelines.html). The Higher Education
> Academy (nee LTSN) uses an application profile of CanCore/UK LOM
> Core/IEEE LOM (I don't know which) called RLLOMAP and there are
> user-friendly cataloguing guidelines online at
> http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/interoperability.htm
>
> Of course you don't have to go for a LOM to tag your objects - you
> could stick to a simple schema such as Dublin Core, but the trouble
> with that is that DC doesn't have any fields describing educational
> data.
>
> I would suggest looking at the educational metadata FAQ at CETIS
> (http://www.cetis.ac.uk/metadatafaq/FrontPage) but the link is
> kaput, so perhaps one of the CETIS folk on here could have a look at
> it?
>
> As for developing a repository from scratch, that could be a
> Herculean task if you're going to make it compliant with a LOM. It's
> something I did think about, but knocked on the head after I saw the
> 60-odd fields in the UK LOM Core. It might be better, if you've got
> the money, to get server-based software such as the ubiquitous
> Intralibrary which costs 5 figures but can, so I've heard, do
> anything that you might want to do with a LO repository. The CETL I'm
> involved in (www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk) will likely be getting a copy of
> Intralibrary to host and tag its outputs.
>
> From what I've read and heard, I think you've more chance of getting
> hamsters to roll boulders than of getting academics to input detailed
> metadata, a job which, IMO, is best left to professional cataloguers
> and librarians for a whole bunch of reasons, not least time and
> quality of metadata. This is certainly the approach that JORUM is
> taking, engaging piecework cataloguers to tag LOs as they're
> deposited - contact the JORUM folk for more details.
>
> Cheers
>
> Fred
>
> Fred Riley
> Learning Technologist
> Room C57, School of Nursing
> University of Nottingham
> Queen's Medical Centre
> Nottingham NG7 2HA
>
> Tel: +44 (0)115 82 30935
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/staff/support-staff/fred_riley.html
>
>>>> Deborah Ann Pratt <[log in to unmask]> 23/01/2006 16:19:02 >>>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am involved with developing an online repository of learning objects
> for use in the Business and Management subject area as part of a HEFCE
> (Higher Education Funding Council for England) funded project. We are
> currently at the development stage and as part of the repository there
> will be metadata on the materials. I have been searching the literature
> regarding metadata - can someone point me in the right direction as to
> the metadata guidelines that we could use. What have others used? We
> would like if possible - to keep the metadata relatively simple as
> academics will be responsible for completing this.
>
> I would welcome any comments.
>
> Deborah.
>
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All the best
Kenny
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