All,
those of you with links into the educational metadata world may be
interested in the release of version 1.0 of the IMS Metadata
Specification.
The press release is at
http://www.imsproject.org/pressRelease/pr990820.html, and you can get
straight to the document at http://www.imsproject.org/metadata/.
IMS is "a global coalition of academic, commercial and government
organizations", including Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Thompson
publishers, and our very own Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
This metadata standard represents one part of what IMS is trying to do,
and is intended to facilitate quite detailed description of educational
resources.
The approach is quite different to that of something like the Dublin
Core (which recently formalised its own interest in the educational
domain by setting up the dc-education working group
(http://purl.org/dc/groups/education.htm)), and is closely aligned to
work on a 'Learning Object Model' within IEEE.
Paul
-- dr. paul miller - interoperability focus - [log in to unmask] --
u. k. office for library and information networking (ukoln)
tel: +44 (0)1482 466890 mobile: +44 (0)410 481812
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