COLIS ODRL METADATA PROFILE

http://www.iprsystems.com/COLIS/COLIS-ODRL-Profile-06.pdf

Out of the Australian-based COLIS project was produced this metadata profile for using ODRL to express the rights for learning objects in IMS Content Packages. This was originally published about 18 months ago, but still seems useful, and as far as I can tell hasn’t been supplanted.

The COLIS Project (renamed and extended as the “Interaction of IT Systems and Repositories” or IIS&R Project) seems to have finished much of its work this past December, and is now engaging in a series of tours around Australia to disseminate its findings. A number of reports and presentations are available on their site – of particular interest to me was a presentation on the “‘Use and Useability of Learning Objects within the COLIS Demonstrator Framework.” It is interesting to see the similarities in the difficulties it outlines (cataloguing time, standard vocabularies, versioning, DRM issues) to other existing projects. SWL