Tools RSLP CD Schema to IEEE LOM Mapping Draft 0.1

Introduction

The RSLP CD Schema is available at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/rslp/schema/

A proposal for administrative metadata for an RSLP CD description is available at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/guides/gp3/

The IEEE LOM v1.0 standard is available at http://ltsc.ieee.org/doc/wg12/LOM_1484_12_1_v1_Final_Draft.pdf

An RSLP CD "collection description" provides descriptions of several related resources:

• a Collection (an aggregation of items)
• the Collector of the Collection
• the Owner of the Collection
• a Location of that Collection (a physical Location or a digital Service which makes the Collection available)
• the Administrator of the Location of the Collection

An IEEE LOM instance describes

• a learning object
• contributors to the learning object (in the Lifecycle category)
• the IEEE LOM metadata record itself (in the MetaMetadata category)

The IEEE LOM also provides (in the Classification category) the capacity to store in the instance record hierarchically structured values from a classification system. In contrast the values of e.g. dc:subject in an RSLP CD record are typically literals, qualified by the name of an encoding scheme (classification system).

Acknowledgements

This mapping draws on (and hopefully is compatible with):

• the Mapping to Unqualified Dublin Core included as Annex B of the IEEE LOM standard;
• the Crosswalks between e-GMS, LOM and the Curriculum Online metadata scheme draft published by Simulacra Media

Mapping

Properties from the RSLP CD Schema are presented in the first two columns of the table below. The properties are grouped according to the resource which they describe: Collection, Collector, Owner, Location, Administrator, or the Collection Description record itself (i.e. the administrative metadata properties). The first column lists the "label" of the property; the second column lists the identifier, for convenience in the form of an XML QName (e.g. dc:title). In the RSLP CD schema. the same named property may occur in association with more than one resource e.g. both the Collection and the Location may have a dc:title property. The label of that property may be different in each case.

The namespace prefixes used in the XML QNames are assumed to be associated with XML namespace names as follows:

• dc: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
• dcterms: http://purl.org/dc/terms/
• rslpcd: http://purl.org/rslp/terms#

The names of the IEEE LOM elements are presented here in the form category.element. The mapping is intended to be neutral on the forms in which an RSLP collection description or an IEEE LOM record are represented.