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Kattemingga Lodge Melbourne, Australia © 2000 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative |
Jon Mason & Stuart Sutton, Co-Chairs Original Draft: 1 March 2000 All Rights Reserved |
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It is generally agreed among members of the Working Group at Frankfurt that the capacity to designate various kinds of activities of students, and various kinds of methods used by teachers/trainers in the teaching/learning process is important for networked information discovery and retrieval. Subsequently, as chronicled in the preceding sections of this report, the Working Group members at the face-to-face meeting were unable to resolve issues regarding this category resulting in the decision to make no general recommentations at this time regarding the creation of either a new education-focused element (and possible element qualifiers for such an element ) or element qualifiers for the existing DCES.
However, in conformance with the DCMI commitment to modular metadata, the Working Group members at the face-to-face meeting unanimously recommend the use of the “InteractivityType” and the “InteractivityLevel” data elements (Education Category: 5.1 & 5.3) from the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) draft standard for P1484.12. These two data elements partially fulfill needs identified under the Teaching Processes/Characteristics category at Frankfurt. Representatives from DCMI and IMS/IEEE (IMS is as an instantiation of the IEEE LOM and was represented at the face-to-face meeting) will identify an appropriate technical means to enable referencing the namespace. It was recognized that mixing of namespaces raises important issues of interoperability among metadata registries–issues that will be explored by DCMI and IMS/IEEE in the near future.
The table below represents the IEEE P1484.12 data elements 5.1 & 5.3 as set forth in the recently released (5 February 2000) Draft 4.0 (currently under balloting). Differences between the already balloted IEEE P1484.12 v.3.8 and Draft 4.0 exist but are substantively insignificant.
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| 5.1 | InteractivityType | “The flow of interaction between this resource and the intended user. ” | ||||
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| Entry | Restricted Vocabulary: 1=User_defined |
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| Language | en | |||||
| String | Definition: Additional detail on the vocabulary entry. Note: #1: Used for data when the vocabulary entry is “User_defined” and when additional information is deemed necessary. Note #2: Where the value is drawn from a controlled vocabulary other than the IEEE restricted vocabulary, the vocabulary “Entry” here is set to “See_classification” (“2”) with data entered in the IEEE P1484.12 Category 9 (“Classification”) with the value of “Purpose” set to “InteractivityType”. |
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| 5.3 | InteractivityLevel | “The degree of interactivity between the end user and this resource. ” | ||||
| String | Restricted Vocabulary: 0=Very low |
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Revision History:
7 March 2000:
- Previous references to the IEEE LOM alone were changed to include IMS. While the IEEE effort is working on the LOM standard, it does not represent an established project namespace as does IMS. In addition, the agreement to cooperate in this regard was reached at Katteminnga through representation at the meeting by IMS. Subsequent efforts in developing technical means to implement the accord will include all three entities.