Call for Dublin Core Education Application Profile use cases

Created by Catherine Howell (The University of Melbourne) on February 12, 2008

I'm just back from today’s CETIS Metadata and Repositories SIG Meeting at Birkbeck, and wanted to post some notes while they’re fresh. Notes and comments arising from the crazily brave, “live-and-uncensored” demo sessions will get posted separately: for the curious, these included ORE; Becta Vocabulary Management System (VMS); ENTAG; FeedForward; and SOURCE.

My focus for the day was to learn more about how to participate in the Dublin Core Education Application Profile use case call (loads of info available at the Dublin Core Education Wiki). The call is still open -- closing date is the end of February 2008 -- so if any readers out there would be interested in submitting a use case related to your own projects/institutions, get in touch with Sarah Currier or Lara Whitelaw asap.

At CARET we literally just found out about the call this week (and now the end of Feb is just two weeks away, aaaargh!), but so far, we’ve brainstormed the following aims / general requirements for our educational research project, Learning Landscape:

•    Enable dissemination and secondary analysis / reuse (within a single institution) of a diverse educational research dataset;
•    Express the appropriate associated rights and intended audiences at document / object level;
•    Employ the British Educational Thesaurus vocabulary to facilitate thematic/keyword search.

Model projects for us include QUADS - the ESRC Qualitative Archiving and Data Sharing Scheme. We are also interested to learn from the experiences of projects in other disciplines used to working with rich datasets, such as Anthropology. As our project nears its conclusion, we are thinking more and more about data access, archiving and sustainability issues. Existing DC fields don't necessarily cover all of our metadata needs - particularly in relation to expressing certain key aspects of the provenance and authorship of research artefacts. Today's brainstorming session was a good start (special thanks to Vashti Zarach from CETIS, who acted as scribe), and should help us to clarify our use cases in time to feed into the current round of requirements gathering.

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Community Community Blogs Constituent and Discussion Groups Member Directory Affinity Finder Collaborations and Affiliations Wiki		Call for Dublin Core Education Application Profile use cases Created by Catherine Howell (The University of Melbourne) on February 12, 2008 I'm just back from today’s CETIS Metadata and Repositories SIG Meeting at Birkbeck, and wanted to post some notes while they’re fresh. Notes and comments arising from the crazily brave, “live-and-uncensored” demo sessions will get posted separately: for the curious, these included ORE; Becta Vocabulary Management System (VMS); ENTAG; FeedForward; and SOURCE. My focus for the day was to learn more about how to participate in the Dublin Core Education Application Profile use case call (loads of info available at the Dublin Core Education Wiki). The call is still open -- closing date is the end of February 2008 -- so if any readers out there would be interested in submitting a use case related to your own projects/institutions, get in touch with Sarah Currier or Lara Whitelaw asap. At CARET we literally just found out about the call this week (and now the end of Feb is just two weeks away, aaaargh!), but so far, we’ve brainstormed the following aims / general requirements for our educational research project, Learning Landscape: • Enable dissemination and secondary analysis / reuse (within a single institution) of a diverse educational research dataset; • Express the appropriate associated rights and intended audiences at document / object level; • Employ the British Educational Thesaurus vocabulary to facilitate thematic/keyword search. Model projects for us include QUADS - the ESRC Qualitative Archiving and Data Sharing Scheme. We are also interested to learn from the experiences of projects in other disciplines used to working with rich datasets, such as Anthropology. As our project nears its conclusion, we are thinking more and more about data access, archiving and sustainability issues. Existing DC fields don't necessarily cover all of our metadata needs - particularly in relation to expressing certain key aspects of the provenance and authorship of research artefacts. Today's brainstorming session was a good start (special thanks to Vashti Zarach from CETIS, who acted as scribe), and should help us to clarify our use cases in time to feed into the current round of requirements gathering. CETIS \| cetismdrsig-feb2008 \| Digital Repositories \| Dublin Core \| Events \| Metadata \| requirements gathering \| use case analysis Catherine's blog Login or register to post comments 1056 reads Bookmark/Search this page with:
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