Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Ben: Aligning Metadata Templates to Learning Objects

Worth reviewing: What is IEEE Learning Object Metadata / IMS Learning Resource Metadata?

Have been entering some test documents on HIVE - what I have discovered is that on first impression HIVE populates some basic LOM attribute metadata fields - standard and key data. However, HIVE does allow the entry of data related to all the Root, Branch and Leaf hierarchy of elements in the LOM data model - after uploading.

This facility is useful - as metadata output is an inter-operable standard XML markup for re-purposing in any delivery system.

Future development work:
  • Upload more documents and link them in HIVE to show 'aggregation' (related to validation process) - key to searchability/findability of documents and related processes
  • Match the elements of the LOM / Metadata schemes to the attributes that are required to represent the metadata for the validation documents - may require non-standard fields to be created - specific to the project. his process would require an amended XML file to be imported to HIVE (easily achieved)

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