tis 2007-08-14 klockan 13:05 +0100 skrev Sarah Currier:
> Hi all,
>
> A useful contribution from Pierre-Julien Guay, who is involved in the
> ISO Metadata for Learning Resources work (something which I don't know
> much about, and which I have failed to find a homepage for):
Note that some members of the DCMI sent comments on an earlier draft,
urging ISO to more carefully consider DC and semantic web
interoperability:
http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/6155520/WG4_N0148_DCMI_Comments_on_WG4_N0145_-_Working_Draft_for_ISO_IEC_19788-2_-_Metadata_for_Learning_Resources_-_Part_2.pdf?func=doc.Fetch&nodeid=6155520
If anyone has any ideas about how to increase the visibility of those
issues within MLR, please let me know.
/Mikael
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> Conversation : DC-Education Application Profile: update + feedback requested
> Objet : Re: DC-Education Application Profile: update + feedback requested
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm new to this discussion but would like to share these points:
>
> It is my personal opinion that the upcoming DC-Education Application Profile
> (introduction of educational descriptors in DC and the work on collating
> recommended vocabularies) will be a great step toward interoperability with
> other educational description schemas, namely LOM and the ISO MLR.
>
> By interoperability, I mean the ability to share a common basic set of
> descriptors among repositories with minimal conversion efforts thus being
> able to process federated search on common criteria.
>
> I notice a similarity between the fundamental work on DC abstraction and the
> extensibility based approach we have taken for MLR to accommodate new
> stakeholders' needs. It is necessary to explicitly and unambiguously state
> principles, construction rules and data structure. In my view, such a work
> would not result in constraining possible applications but leave them opened
> to accommodate applicaiton based on community needs (and at the same time
> avoiding the debate about what a learning object really is!).
>
> Following are some comments about proposed educational elements:
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> 1) in introducing LOM Educational.LearningResourceType, you may want to
> consider the ambiguity in its vocabulary which may address both the nature
> of the learning resource and its pedagogical application. In the MLR, we
> proposed a split between two elements:
>
> Resource Type : Collection, Dataset, Interactive resource, Moving image,
> Physical object, Service, Software, Sound, Still image, Text, Website
>
> Pedagogical Type : Learning measurement, Problem solving Activity, Tool,
> Display, Description, Explanation
>
> 2) having very limited FRBR related experience, I found it very subjective
> to document item such as InteractivityLevel, SemanticDensity and
> Educational. Difficulty and seriously wonder about their relevance and
> interoperability.
>
> 3) Educational.TypicalAgeRange. This is probably one of the most important
> federated search criteria. From an interoperability perspective, at the time
> of data sharing, education level should be translated into numerical age
> values that can be processed without ambiguities (MLR has two elements:
> minimumAge and maximumAge). But, of course, this doesn't need to be DC
> embedded.
>
> 4) In our editorial work, Norm Friesen and myself have carefully reviewed
> actual LOM definitions for both elements and vocabulary values. You may want
> to give a look at those definitions for DC candidates. The resulting
> documents are publicly available.
>
> 36N1524 Text of ISO/IEC CD2 19788-1, ITLET - Metadata for Learning Resources
> - Part 1. Framework
>
> 36N1312 Working Draft (WD2) for ISO/IEC 19788-2 - Metadata for Learning
> Resources - Part 2. Data Elements
>
> http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objId=1056984&objAction=brows
> e&sort=name
>
> and
>
> WG4_N0185_Proposed_other_parts_for_ISO_IEC_19788 (PDF Package)
>
> http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objId=5791404&objAction=brows
> e&sort=name
>
> Hope this can be useful,
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Pierre-Julien Guay
> Vitrine Technologie-Éducation
> http://ntic.org/
> (514) 332-3000, poste 6026
>
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