Monthly Archives: September 2009

About metadata & resource description (pt 2)

By philb | September 14, 2009

Trying to show how resource description on sites such as Flickr relates to metadata…
Some people have looked at the metadata requirements for the UK OER programme and taken them as a prescription for which LOM or Dublin Core elements they should use. After all that’s what metadata is, isn’t it? But UK OER projects are [...]

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About metadata & resource description (pt 1)

By philb | September 14, 2009

Trying to distinguish between metadata and resource description…
In our online support session for the UKOER programme, some of which John has summarized (1 2 3), instead of giving participants a definition of what metadata is we gave them a choice and asked them to vote on what they understood the word to mean.
The options were:
A: [...]

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