On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Phil Barker wrote:
> Hello All,
> Two pieces of news about the IMS VDEX specification.
>
> 1) A new version of the Reload-VDEX editor is availble from
> http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/vdex/ . As well as letting you create VDEX files this
> version shows how VDEX files might be used when filling in the Classification
> section of a IMS Learning Resource Meta-data record.
>
> 2) The VDEX spec is nearing the end of its public review stage. If you have any
> comments on the specification, now is the time to make them. Comments so far
> (from the last SIG meeting):
> - Why create VDEX when zThes exists?
Phil,
it wasn't quite as simplistic as that. More like
- Why create VDEX when there are 'n' other existing languages for marking
up vocabularies?
I don't know how big 'n' is - but n > 1 :-)
Andy
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