Jon, building on my first stab and Ronan's refinement, you suggest the
following:
>Other descriptors for administrator might also include 'provider',
certainly
>a term that has widespread usage in the VET sector in Australia.
>
>Perhaps a combination might look something like:
>
> ADMINISTRATOR:
> --Education professional
> --Training professional
> ++Manager ??
> --Student
> --Trainee
> --Parent/Guardian*
> ++Provider
AND
> BENEFICIARY:
> AUDIENCE POPULATION DESCRIPTORS:
> ---Intelligence/ability (controlled vocabularies)
> ---Physical/emotional (controlled vocabularies)
> ---Socio-economic status (controlled vocabularies)
> ---Ethnic groups (controlled vocabularies)
> ---Education level (controlled vocabularies)
> ---Training level (controlled vocabularies)*
> +++Competency (controlled vocabularies)
> ---Grade level (controlled vocabularies)
> ---Age level (age and age range)
> +++Gender (controlled vocabularies (?))
> +++Linguistic ability (controlled vocabularies (?))
> -++Occupational Sector (controlled vocabulary (e.g.,
SIC
> codes ? ISCO?? )
> -++Personnel groups (?) (controlled vocabularies e.g.
> SOC (?))
Jon, ever since I posted my first stab at "audience" and Ronan's
reply, I have been pondering the general form of a possible
"element/subelement" (or element/element qualifier) for the (now,
post-Ronan) subdivision of audience into "administrator" and "beneficiary."
Does this imply the following:
DCEd.audience.administrator (controlled vocabulary(ies))
DCEd.audience.beneficiery (controlled vocabulary(ies))
OR
DCEd.audience.administrator (controlled vocabulary(ies))
DCEd.audience.intelligenceAbility (controlled vocabulary(ies))
DCEd.audience.ageLevel (age or age range)
etc. for the other population descriptors
At this point, I think that audience element qualifiers of this sort
fit within the DC "model" and merely refine the audience element. If so,
then it would seem that the granularity sought through the additions
you suggest (as well as others that are waiting out there) are matters
of a controlled vocabulary or vocabularies (probably plural given the
many instances of formal national/international/organization schemes)?
Jon, a particular question: is your "provider" really different from
DC.publisher
which (the last time I looked) was the person/entity making the resource
available? Can you give me a sentence ot two fleshing out "manager"? Is
it not subsumed in the concept of an administrator element qualifier...or,
are
these again issues of controlled vocabularies, AND, if so, are they within
DC-Education's scope (elements and element qualifiers)? Help me out!
> 1. I have been reflecting about the DCMI's reluctance to see
> "Audience" as a suitable candidate for a "16th general element".
> In the past I have been an advocate for this but I think I can now see
> some kind of intractable dilemma or tension here to do with specificity
> & generality (& therefore also understand perhaps why it isn't a
> suitable 16th element). The LOM partially solves the problem by
> applying further granularity & therefore specificity. The main problem
> in achieving a 'generalised semantic definition' [is that a
contradiction?] -
>that is, for Audience to be defined as a general element - is that the
digital
> domain offers us objects that are more commonly "audience-neutral" and
> which can be flexibly aggregated & re-purposed. By assigning a value for
> Audience to a particular object - while very useful in many educational
> contexts, such as a specific course on offer - the object's potential for
> discovery (& educational application) is also somehow limited as a result.
Jon, I have to admit that I have been singularly unconcerned with the
discussion of "audience" as a 16th DC core element. I think you are
probably
correct that much of what is out there to be discovered is
"audience-neutral".
Only time will tell whether it would be a useful DC core element. However,
I do think that audience is an inportant aspect of discovery in the ed/train
context.
> regards,
> Jon
>
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