ARIADNE LOM Application Profile

Gonzalo ParraK.U.Leuven

We are..

• European Association open to the World, for Knowledge Sharing and Reuse

• ARIADNE infrastructure is a distributed network of learning repositories

Centers

• Lausanne, CH

• Toulouse, FR

• Guayaquil, EC

• Leuven, BE

Our requirements

• Facilitate share and reuse of learning objects

• Metadata are used to enable end users to focus on relevant resources

LOM categories1. General2. Life Cycle

3. Meta-Metadata

4. Technical

5. Educational6. Rights

7. Relation

8. Annotation9. Classification

Our example

General category

LOM Field M Example

1.1.1: Identifier.Catalog Y “ARIADNE”

1.1.2: Identifier.Entry Y “CS_LKP_v_3.0_nr_2521”

1.2: Title Y (“en”, ”Metadata Standards: What, Who & Why”)

1.3: Language Y “en-GB”

1.4: Description Y (“en”,” This Document presents the issues related to Metadata ”)

1.8: AggregationLevel O “1”

Life Cycle category

LOM Field M Example

2.3.1 Contribute.Role Y “author”

2.3.2 Contribute.Entity Y Erik Duval’s VCard

2.3.3 Contribute.Date Y “2001-07-28”

Meta-Metadata category

LOM Field M Example

3.2.1 Contribute.Role Y “creator”

3.2.2 Contribute.Entity Y Erik Duval’s VCard

3.2.3 Contribute.Date Y “2003-02-10”

3.4 Language Y “en”

Technical category

LOM Field M Example

4.1 Format Y “application/pdf”

4.2 Size Y “8600”

4.3 Location Y“http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/

AriadneFinder/download?objectid=CS_LKP_v_3.0_nr_2521”

...

Educational categoryLOM Field M Example

5.1 InteractivityType Y “expositive”

5.2 LearningResourceType Y “narrative text”

5.3 InteractivityLevel N “high”

5.4 SemanticDensity N “high”

5.5 IntendedUserRole Y “learner”

5.8 Difficulty N “medium”

5.9 TypicalLearningTime Y “PT1H40M”

Rights category

LOM Field M Example

6.1 Cost Y “yes”

6.2 CopyrightAndOtherRestrictions O “yes”

6.3 Description Y* (“en”, “ use of this learning object is only permitted after written permit from its Author”)

Relational category

LOM Field M Example

7.1 Kind Y “isversionof”

7.2. Resource.Description Y (“en”, ”Metadata standards version 1.0 of Erik Duval”)

Annotation category

LOM Field M Example

8.1 Entity Y Gonzalo Parra’s VCard

8.2 Date Y “2003-0 2-11”

8.3 Description Y(“en”, “I have read this paper and I found

it interesting, after reading it you will have a good idea about metadata in the

field of education”)

ARIADNE Classification System

Classification category

LOM Field M Example

9.1 Purpose Y “discipline”

9.2.1 TaxonPath.Source Y “ARIADNE”

9.2.2.2 TaxonPath.Taxon[1].Entry Y (“en”, “Natural, Exact or engineering Sciences”)

9.2.2.2 TaxonPath.Taxon[2].Entry Y (“en”, “Informatics/ information Processing”)

The result

Important note

An element that is considered required, does not need to be filled out always by the end user

• Eg: General.Identifier.Catalog = “ARIADNE”

• Automatic Metadata Generation (SAmgI): http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/samgi-service/

Questions?

Thanks!

Sources

• Learning Object Metadata: An empirical investigation and lessons learned. Jehad Najjar.

• Duval, E., Smith, N., and Van Coillie, M. 2006. Application Profiles for Learning. In Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE international Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (July 05 - 07, 2006). ICALT. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 242-246.

• ARIADNE Educational Metadata Recommendation. EPFL, KULeuven and the ARIADNE project.