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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 the face-to-face meeting that the capacity to designate the “use time” for the resource being described is an important attribute in networked information discovery and retrieval. The concept of “duration” in this element is distinct from the physical size of the resource or its potential technical “run time” (where such exists). Values for this category represent the approximate or typical time it takes to work with the resource.
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 “TypicalLearningTime” data element (Education Category: 5.9) from the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) draft standard for P1484.12. 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 P1484.12–5.9 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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| 5.9 | TypicalLearningTime | “Approximate or typical time it takes to work with this resource.” | ||||
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1999-06-11; PT1H30M; PT1M45S |
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| Language | en | |||||
| String | circa 1300 BC; Fall Semester 1999 |
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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.