Metadata for Education

This page includes pointers to a number of relevant resources of which participants might like to be aware.

The list is not intended to be comprehensive, but attendees should feel free to nominate important documents that they feel should appear here. Standards and guidance produced within your own organisations may be of special interest here.

Credit Framework

FEDA - February 2000.
The credit framework is a common way to describe, measure and compare achievement, which has a variety of uses across the UK education and training system.

HTML: <http://www.feda.ac.uk/+Credit/>

DRAFT Metadata Standards

NGfL Scotland - January 2000.
Draft cataloguing scheme for use within NGfL Scotland, based upon European Schoolnet

HTML: <http://www.ngflscotland.gov.uk/ngflmetadata.htm>

DRAFT Policies and Standards

NGfL Scotland - February 2000.
various metadata and terminological standards for use across NGfL Scotland

HTML: <http://www.ngflscotland.gov.uk/stand.asp>

Standards guidance for UfI content developers

UfI - 2000.
A variety of guidance documents for 'Qualified Suppliers' preparing material for UfI.

HTML: <http://www.ufiltd.co.uk/materials/qualified.htm>

The EUN Data Handbook and Publication Guidelines

European Schoolnet Project - May 1999.
Basic cataloguing guidelines from this European project, based upon a now superseded version of the Dublin Core

HTML synopsis: <http://www.en.eun.org/news/metadatabook-en.html>
RTF document: <http://www.en.eun.org/documents/metadatahandbook.zip>

SIF Preliminary Implementation Specification

Schools Interoperability Framework - November 1999.

PDF: <http://www.siia.net/sif/docs/SIFSpecV1.0.zip>
Word: <http://www.siia.net/sif/docs/SIFSpecV1.0Doc.zip>

Draft Standard for Learning Object Metadata

IEEE Learning Technology Standardization Committee - February 2000.

HTML: <http://ltsc.ieee.org/doc/wg12/LOM_WD4.htm>
Word: <http://ltsc.ieee.org/doc/wg12/LOM_WD4.doc>
PDF: <http://ltsc.ieee.org/doc/wg12/LOM_WD4.PDF>

IMS Metadata Specification

IMS - August 1999.

HTML: <http://www.imsproject.org/metadata/index.html>