IEMSR cluster summary
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IEMSR
The IEMSR (Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry) project is developing a metadata schema registry as a pilot shared service within the JISC Information Environment. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/iemsr/
Metadata schema registries enable the publication, navigation and sharing of information about metadata. The IEMSR will act as the primary source for authoritative information about metadata schemas recommended by the JISC IE Standards framework.
Metadata within the JISC IE is based largely on two key standards: the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) and the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard. The IEMSR will provide the JISC IE with a single point of referral for recommended schemas. It will allow various initiatives within the JISC IE to publish "application profiles" of these standards in a common registry, making them available to others. This provides a concrete way of encouraging sensible uniformity alongside necessary divergence. It helps avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, and supports sharing of common approaches.
The project has now entered Phase 2, the continuing development of web interface and desktop software, both key elements in encouraging uptake and use of the registry.
Issues of particular relevance to the current phase include: providing a focused business case; the dissimilar software base surrounding the DC and LOM metadata standards; incentive to add data to the registry; provenance of donated data; reuse of donated data; defining a usable interface (eg. faceted views on metadata profiles); use cases and user profiles; the possibility of integration with DC/LOM-specific tools such as XML/XSD validation.
Questions:
- Regarding any of the issues above/the project in general?
- Who uses what schemas - integration with IESR/others?
