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We are investigating taxonomies and tags for our course information. Has anyone created their own taxonomies/tags for their courses, or is anyone aware of a standard one used across the sector?
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Shivraj Singh Sandhu
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Is this Subject Coding Consultation relevant to you?
<http://www.cetis.ac.uk/subject-coding-consultation-extended-25th-september/>
Our Marketing department (in our Scottish Further Education College) with some assistance produced a custom, in-house, three-level classification system of:
clusters <http://www.fife.ac.uk/courses/>, which contain:
segments, which contain courses and optionally:
sections which can contain courses
The idea was to produce student-friendly labels in a system completely decoupled from the (somewhat politicized) organizational structure, and also different from the systems (like Superclass or Dominant Programme Group) we used in our student record systems.
Top level clusters have identifiers, titles, descriptions and colour schemes, and are used on our website as well as in past prospectuses. We codified these categories into an XML document using a custom schema, so we can programmatically combine it with digital content.
<http://www.fife.ac.uk/_layouts/fc/categories.xml>
<http://www.fife.ac.uk/_layouts/fc/categories.xsd>
When we merged with another College last year, this classification system was accepted by our counterparts, and helped produce a merged, online course collection (we extract an XML output from each of our two student record systems, combine them into one XCRI feed, validate it and deploy it to our website where it automatically generates the course pages using XSLT and CSS.
I cannot say how user-friendly (or applicable beyond Scottish Further Education) the classification is, I was more involved with the technical and architectural side.
Tavis Reddick
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