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What is Educational Metadata

Chapter 12
Handbook of Research on E-Learning Standards and Interoperability: Frameworks and Issues
Metadata about learning objects.
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Enhancing Digital Repositories with Learning Object Metadata
Andreas D. Alexopoulos (University of Patras, Greece), Georgia D. Solomou (University of Patras, Greece), Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos (University of Patras, Greece), and Theodore Papatheodorou (University of Patras, Greece)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-789-9.ch012
Abstract
In this chapter the authors present the basic characteristics about some existing educational metadata schemata and application profiles. They focus on the widely adopted IEEE LOM standard and give a brief analysis of its structure. Having in mind the utilization of educational metadata schemata by digital repositories preserving educational and research resources, they concentrate on a considerably popular system for this reason, DSpace. The authors want to show how the IEEE LOM metadata set can be incorporated in the default DSpace’s qualified Dublin Core metadata schema, introducing enhancements to the existing University of Patras live installation. For this reason, they document a potential LOM to Dublin Core metadata mapping and reveal possible gains from such an attempt. Further, they propose an ontological model for the repository’s metadata that takes also into account the educational characteristics of resources. In this way, they show how a semantic level of interoperability between educational applications can be achieved.
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