Quoting Liddy Nevile <[log in to unmask]>:
> The proposed application profile is not a formal proposal but rather
> a test to see if the proposed term would work as planned. The
> application profile is an attempt to render in DC terms what is
> probably going to become the ISO standard for description of
> accessibility of resources - to be used alongside or in association
> with other metadata. In the case of LOM users, they will use LOM
> metadata but in the case of DC users, they will use DC terms.
As you mention LOM here, at the risk of drifting off-topic, it may be
worth highlighting the current work-in-progress on developing a
translation of the LOM into the DCAM.
See
http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/DCMIIEEELTSCTaskforce/LomDCAMAnalysis
(I stress this is work-in-progress and subject to change).
The point I'd highlight there is that while LOM has several "category"
data elements that act as "containers" for various sub-trees of LOM
data elements, those "categories", in most cases, are not represented
in the corresponding DC description set
e.g. a LOM instance distinguishes between "General" data and
"Educational" data - and it may well be the case that this information
is provided by different individuals at different stages of a metadata
instance creation workflow - _but_ this does not result in the presence
of "generalDescription"/"educationalDescription" or
"generalStatement"/"educationalStatement" properties in the
corresponding DC description set. On the contrary, the information that
in the LOM instance is represented within those two distinct categories
is in the DC description set represented simply as various statements
within a single description of the learning object.
(There are some exceptions to this where the LOM category elements do
indeed convey some semantics other than simple "grouping" of
information about the learning object.)
I'm not sure whether there is an analogy here with the case of
"adaptability" information or not, but I think the case is worth
highlighting.
Pete
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