http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/
DC_2dEducation_20Application_20Profile
Possibly of interest to some of you metadata mavens out there is this wiki where you can find ongoing work of the Dublin Core Education Working Group, including this early draft of an application profile of Dublin Core to apply to educational materials. It’s not exactly ‘knock your socks off’ kind of stuff but then let’s hope metadata never is considered such.
Clearly an improvement over straight ahead Dublin Core in adding things like ‘Education Level,’ but as some folks from the library community recently reminded us, it’s not like anyone’s actually using much more than the equivalent of Dublin Core anyways when they use the LOM. Oh yeah, I keep forgetting, automatic metadata generation/harvesting is going to save our souls and use all the LOM elements to then rapdily (magically, automatically…) re-assemble personalized learning. LOM mani padme LOM. Boy, am I having a rough Saturday! – SWL
Dublin Core DC-Education Application Profile
Scott Leslie just posted about the new Dublin Core DC-Education Application Profile. Looking at the wiki page he links to, it looks more like IEEE LOM Lite than Dublin Core ++ but it is definitely good to see the DC folks thinking about some of the oth…
Daily Tribute
Here is a recap of significant posts in the edublogging community from the past 48 hours.