Harmonisation of Metadata for Education and Training Communities:
Ottawa Communiqué
At a meeting convened in Ottawa on Friday 24 August 2001, representatives
from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), the IMS Global
Learning Consortium (IMS) and the IEEE Learning Technology Standards
Committee, Learning Object Metadata Working Group (IEEE, LTSC LOM
WG) met to discuss matters of mutual interest.
The meeting, convened by Neil McLean, Director IMS Australia, was
most productive and the following program of action was agreed:
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Develop and promote a set of fundamental principles for the
development and application of modular interoperable metadata
for dissemination to the global education and training communities.
Task Leader: Wayne Hodgins |
Timeline: Public Draft by 22 September 2001 |
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Develop a set of examples that illustrate how metadata should
be generated in a given application profile involving both DCMI
and LOM metadata.
Task Leader: Stuart Sutton |
Timeline: Public Draft by 14 December 2001 |
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Develop a set of guidelines and principles for the creation
of application profiles involving both LOM and DCMI metadata.
Task Leader: Makx Dekkers |
Timeline: Public Draft by 30 November 2001 |
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Development of an example of an application profile in the
form of a machine readable compound schema.
Task Leader: Jon Mason |
Timeline: Public Draft of project scope by 14 September
2001 |
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Other issues identified for potential collaboration include:
(1) the development and maintenance of registries;
(2) an assessment of the degree of semantic drift that may have
developed in
the LOM interpretation of DCMI terms.
Joint task leaders: Stuart Sutton, Stu Weibel, Robby
Robson |
Time lines: To be agreed |
Neil McLean will act as coordinator for this program of action.
For further information please contact:
Neil McLean, email - mclean@library.mq.edu.au
Stu Weibel, email - weibel@oclc.org
Wayne Hodgins, email - wayne.hodgins@autodesk.com
Neil McLean
Director, IMS Australia
30 August 2001
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