Ariadne Article - 'What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the LOM Standard?'. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/godby/
Score one for the librarians!
This article by Carol Jean Godby of the OCLC is an absolute
bombshell and a must-read for folks working with learning object
metadata standards. She follows up on works by Norm Friesen and Lorna Campbell that survey existing application profiles of the IEEE LOM with a view to answering three main questions:
- Which elements are most widely adopted?
- What are the prospects for interoperability given these profiles and the entirely optional nature of any of the elements
- What can be learnt about the motivation for developing an
application profile (a.k.a. why can't us educational technologist just
submit to one standard way of describing things or let the librarians
do it)
Somewhat unsurprisingly, like Friesen and Campbell before her, she
reports that the most used fields from the LOM can be easily mapped to
the existing Dublin Core fields, and that we're pretty much all over
the map when it comes to all of the special 'pedagogical' type fields
that were supposedly the motivation for this whole exercise in the
first place. (more...)
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