Hello all,
Thanks Andy for picking this up again.
I'm cc'ing this to the CETIS metadata list for their info. It would probably
be best if comments/discussion were kept on the UK-MEG list rather than risk
forking the discussion. If that poses a problem for anyone let me know.
Also, Andy comes to the same conclusion that I reached.
All the best, Phil.
UK-MEG Jiscmail list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/UK-MEG
Andy Powell wrote:
> Firstly, apologies for not having followed up on our survey for quite
> some time! Other things have got in the way and this issue has,
> unfortunately, been left on the back-burner.
>
> The survey results can be seen by going to
>
> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/surveys.cgi?A=hp&LMGT1=UK-MEG
>
> then choosing the "UK Educational Levels" concluded survey.
>
> To summarise:
>
> - most people agree that "educational level" is useful for resource
> discovery and that having a UK-wide list is a good thing.
>
> - the picture of what exact form that list should take is less clear. The
> revised 14-level list at
>
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/Metadata/UKEL
>
> gets the most votes. But it gets less than 50% of the total vote. I.e.
> most people want to do something else, but there is no clear winner as
> to what should be done.
>
> Despite that... ( :-) ) it seems to me that if we accept the functional
> requirements outlined at the top of the revised list above, then the
> current 12-level list is ruled out (because it doesn't meet the
> requirement to cover pre-school through to doctoral degree level) - so
> we can ignore that part of the vote! Bear with me, I'm trying to move
> us forward here... :-)
>
> Going with the 14-level list does not rule out developing a simpler list
> in the future if we need to - so we can forget about the 'Develop
> something simpler' part of the vote!
>
> Ditto the 'Do something else' vote!
>
> So, it seems to me, that moving the proposed 14-level list forward is
> the best thing to do for the time being. In which case, we need to
> agree the proposed mappings in the Wiki and maybe come up with some
> definitions where we can.
>
> OK, so I can already hear people shouting "well, why the hell did you
> bother with the survey then?" :-). But I don't see what else to do...
>
> Thoughts, as always, welcome...
>
> Andy
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