I emailed this list a while back with an application profile
for assessment metadata (TOIA-COLA application profile v1.2 available at
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/profiles/uklomcore/ ). In my
quest to get metadata packaged neatly with assessments and questions and
therefore achieving maximum interoperability with other systems I am now
getting the TOIA tools to export content packages with full metadata. It was becoming clear that metadata inside
the assessments and questions was not going to be understood by any repository
system or assessment tool unless it was part of a manifest in a content
package. This is now working to some
extent but there are a few outstanding issues - I’d be grateful for some
advice.
- I am
creating multiple instances of certain elements such as classification and
classification.taxonpath. Is it correct to do this? Neither RELOAD nor Intralibrary
seem to be able to display multiple instances of these correctly and
I’m not sure if it’s because their authors haven’t yet
implemented it or because I shouldn’t be doing this in the first
place. If it is correct to do so
(it’s obviously acceptable for other elements such as lifecycle.contribute) then presumably I can continue
to output this and suggest to others that they adapt their systems
accordingly?
- Using
en-GB as the general.language and also for the langstrings throughout the metadata is not recognised
by these systems – should I just revert to en?
- I’ve
added “further education” as educational.context and a couple of new educational.learningresourcetypes none of which are
defined in the LOM. Intralibrary with what seems to be a strict
interpretation of the LOM forces me to change further education to one of
the other specified ones. I don’t see why I should have to do this
as none of them are suitable – but in order to achieve
interoperability do I 1. leave it out altogether,
2. choose an unsatisfactory alternative or 3. ask Intrallect to make their
tool less strict? RELOAD
doesn’t give further education as an option but does at least allow
me to keep that data there.
I dare say others have encountered these issues before!
Many thanks
Niall Sclater
