DCMI Education Linked Data Session, DC-2009 Conference, Seoul Korea

DC-Education Application DC-Education Application Profile, IEEE LOM, ISO Profile, IEEE LOM, ISO

MLR ... Where Are We?MLR ... Where Are We?DC-2009 Update

Slides by Sarah Currier, DC-Ed Co-Moderator

DCMI Education CommunityDCMI Education Community

“The DCMI Education Community is a forum for individuals and organizations involved in implementing Dublin Core and other learning resource metadata in the education domain. The objective of the Community is to promote interoperability within the domain through the use of standard metadata and consensus good practices.”


“The DCMI Education Community is a forum for individuals and organizations involved in implementing Dublin Core and other learning resource metadata in the education domain. The objective of the Community is to promote interoperability within the domain through the use of standard metadata and consensus good practices.”


Moderators: Diane Hillmann & Sarah Currier Wiki here: http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/ E-mail list here: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-

EDUCATION.html DC-Ed Application Profile Task Group:

◦ Sarah Currier & Diane Hillmann.◦ Lara Whitelaw of the Open University (UK).◦ Lorna Campbell, Phil Barker & John Robertson of JISC-CETIS (UK).◦ Pete Johnston & Mikael Nilsson, DC-Arch & DCMI/IEEE Task Force◦ Everyone who submitted use cases and vocabularies for this AP, and

who has taken part in our web-conferences.◦ Representatives from related standards groups: IEEE LOM; IMS; ISO

MLR and others.◦ http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/DC_2dEducation_20Application_20Profile

DCMI/IEEE Taskforce for DC/LOM compatibility work◦ Mikael Nilsson & Pete Johnston◦ http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/DCMIIEEELTSCTaskforce

DC-Education Application DC-Education Application Profile Task GroupProfile Task Group

DC-Ed Application Profile Module Aim: to provide a “modular” AP to support interoperable

description of educational aspects of resources. Scope: educationally significant properties available in

Dublin Core + any other educational properties, e.g. elements from the LOM.

Out-of-scope: will not define or give guidelines for usage of non-educational properties, or non-educational usage of properties.

Modular: aim to enable people to “plug in” the AP with other APs they are using, e.g. the Libraries AP, the Scholarly Works AP, Collection Description AP, a modular accessibility AP, or a local AP.


DC-Ed Application Profile Module: Progress Requirements gathering: 49 use cases gathered from 23 countries

and a range of educational sectors. Functional requirements: generic ones drafted; specific ones

based on use cases to be completed. Domain model: draft domain model completed (work-in-progress) To be determined based on all of above Proposed elements (new and existing): To be determined based

on above. Some will likely be from IEEE LOM. Description Set Profile: Requirements still to be determined (first

attempt at modular AP; DSP requirements unclear; LOM elements require completion of DCMI/IEEE Task Force work).

Usage Guidelines: To be developed.

DCMI/IEEE LTSC Task ForceDCMI/IEEE LTSC Task Force

DCMI/IEEE LTSC Task Force: ProgressTwo documents for joint publication in

development:◦ Resource Description Framework (RDF) Vocabulary for

IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) Data Elements.◦ Recommended Practice for Expressing IEEE Learning

Object Metadata Instances Using the Dublin Core Abstract Model.

Remainder of 2009:◦ Extract RDF vocabulary.◦ Prepare drafts for balloting process within IEEE.◦ Sync process with DCMI publication process.◦ Process ballot feedback and prepare for final publication.

so ...

... noting our community commitment to working with other educational metadata standards initiatives to

increase and enhance interoperability, rather than contributing to

unnecessary complexity and competing standards ...


DC-Ed Application Profile Module: ProgressWhy haven’t we made much progress since

DC2008 Berlin?

Attention to educational metadata work has been diverted in a number of directions in 2009, including:◦ IEEE LTSC LOM Next◦ ISO MLR◦ DCMI/IEEE LTSC Task Force hiatus◦ DC-Ed Moderators’ hiatus



DC2008 Berlin?

IEEE LTSC LOM Next WG spent 2009 on: Moving forward with completing Corrigenda on LOM (now

very nearly complete) Ratifying LOM as a standard for another 5 years (now

complete).◦ We now await LOM Next: what will DC-Ed’s relationship

be with that work?



DC2008 Berlin?

ISO MLR spent 2009 on: Working on a new educational metadata standard. This work engaged the time of many of DC-Ed’s

expert working members. A lot of effort has gone into ensuring that the ISO

MLR is compatible with the DCAM.



DC2008 Berlin?

DCMI/IEEE LTSC Task Force experienced a brief, unavoidable hiatus in 2009: DC-Ed AP TG will need standard expression of LOM

elements within DCAM for our own DSPs. Task Force is now back online and gearing up for

final tasks in getting documents ratified and published by IEEE LTSC and DCMI.



DC2008 Berlin?

DCMI Education Co-Moderators experienced their own hiatus in 2009: Both Diane and Sarah moved out of institutional

settings and had less funded time and effort to give. The afore-mentioned initiatives removed much of

the support from other educational metadata experts from working directly on DC-Education.

We need more people with expertise & time to give!

Please join the DC-Ed Community!E-mail Sarah or Diane:[email protected] [email protected]

Join the DC-Ed list to be notified of new developments and take part in discussions

Website: http://www.dublincore.org/groups/education/Wiki: http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/ E-mail list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-EDUCATION.html

Thanks to Diane Hillmann, Jon Mason, Lara Whitelaw, JISC-CETIS (especially Phil Barker, John Robertson and Lorna Campbell), and

the DC-Education Community for their contributions so far, including to these slides.