Of course, my leaving off the URL of the page I'm talking about was a
deliberate (ahem) test to see whether the CETIS metadata website was
navigable.
Some of you found it; here for the rest of you is the URL:
http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/guides/
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Phil.
Phil Barker wrote:
> Hello all,
> partly in response to Fred's suggestion last month that a "LOM
> cataloguing guide for dummies" would be nice, I've put together a list
> of guides to metadata (in general), guides to the LOM (specifically) and
> cataloguing guides for repositories that use the LOM. I'm not sure that
> a "LOM cataloguing guide for dummies" is possible: the guides to the LOM
> tend assume that you've graduated from "metadata for dummies", and
> cataloguing guides tend to relate to the application interface or and
> application profile rather than the metadata schema per se. Still I hope
> there's information here that will help you progress from "dummy" to LOM
> cataloguer.
>
> If anyone knows of any other guides they would recommend, then send them
> in--especially if you have a guide to your own implementation of the LOM
> that you would be willing to share. All comments welcome.
>
> Finally, can anyone help me track down an introduction to metadata from
> about one or two years ago which was in the form of a photo-novel. It
> made the business case for how metadata could help when working to
> produce a resource against a tight deadline. The case illustrated was
> magazine publishing, and I think it was related to an industry standard
> (maybe from someone like ONYX, OASIS or PRISM)--but with a bit of
> imagination you could see how it would apply to producing a course.
>
> All the best, Phil.
>
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> Phil Barker Learning Technology Adviser
> ICBL, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
> Mountbatten Building, Heriot-Watt University,
> Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
> Tel: 0131 451 3278 Fax: 0131 451 3327
> Web: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/
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Phil Barker Learning Technology Adviser
ICBL, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Mountbatten Building, Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
Tel: 0131 451 3278 Fax: 0131 451 3327
Web: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/
