Category Archives: Dublin_Core

UKOER 2: Collections, technology, and community

By JohnR | September 6, 2011

What technology is being used to aggregate open educational resources? What role can the subject community play in resources discovery? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
In the UKOER 2 programme Strand C funded “Projects identifying, collecting and [...]

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UKOER 2: Content description

By JohnR | August 26, 2011

What standards did projects intend to use to describe and package their OERs? - what other standards are in use?  This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
Descriptive choices
Dublin Core
“The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative “popularized the idea of “core [...]

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The use of Dublin Core metadata in the UKOER programme

By JohnR | March 17, 2010

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative “popularized the idea of “core metadata” for simple and generic resource descriptions” and its initial 15 descriptive elements became an international standard and a component of the Open Archives Initiatives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The Dublin Core community has subsequently developed in two directions – one developing application profiles to [...]

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