Species' range model metadata standards: RMMS

Digital Preservation Metadata Standards

Metadata Standards for Educational Resources

E ach semester, I create Web-based learning experiences for my students by weaving together digital educational resources or learning objects such as videos, images, assessments, simulations, or tutorials. Often I use previously created material, if only I can find it. One current challenge of distributed learning is creating and managing content to facilitate reuse. Instructors as well as stud...

An Educational Ontology based on Metadata Standards

In this paper, we present EUME Onto, an educational ontology that describe terms of learning design, contents and resources. This ontology is intended to (1) organize the available information; and (2) provide the grounds of the knowledge based for an Intelligent Learning Management System. EUME Onto is based on metadata standards such as IMSEML, LOM 1484, OASIS DocBook and FIPA Ontology Device...

Metadata for images: emerging practice and standards

The effective organisation and retrieval of digital images in a networked environment will depend upon the development and use of relevant metadata standards. This paper will discuss metadata formats and digital images with particular reference to the Dublin Core initiative and the standard developed by the Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI). Issues relating to...

Towards an interoperability framework for metadata standards

model, metadata formats, metadata vocabularies, the vocabulary model, application profiles and the profile model. Some of these components correspond to concepts that have been formalized by DCMI (as DCMI recommendations or other documents); other components represent abstractions based on current usage of Dublin Core metadata and on current directions in metadata interoperability. 3.1 The Abst...