Metadata issues, document architecture, and best educational practices
Metadata issues, document architecture, and best educational practices
This paper outlines metadata issues for documents created for a Web-based environment concerned with issues of best educational practices. Metadata describing the documents related to educational practice must be able to describe context of the practice. Moreover, document structure itself is problematic because, in a Web-based environment, a document that appears on a user's workstation as a single object may in fact be an assembly of linked, yet discrete, documents residing in distributed databases. The paper discusses in detail the problem of describing the context of practice, a distributed document architecture, and metadata based on the Dublin Core and GEM metadata standard. The paper ends with a discussion of weaknesses of the Dublin Core when documenting physically distributed documents.
Best educational practices, Document architecture, Dublin Core, GEM, Metadata
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Giordano, Richard
13c61925-de2b-48ae-beab-6aedac3ed14c
6 March 2009
Giordano, Richard
13c61925-de2b-48ae-beab-6aedac3ed14c
Giordano, Richard
(2009)
Metadata issues, document architecture, and best educational practices.
Journal of Internet Cataloging, 3 (2-3), .
(doi:10.1300/J141v03n02_09).
Abstract
This paper outlines metadata issues for documents created for a Web-based environment concerned with issues of best educational practices. Metadata describing the documents related to educational practice must be able to describe context of the practice. Moreover, document structure itself is problematic because, in a Web-based environment, a document that appears on a user's workstation as a single object may in fact be an assembly of linked, yet discrete, documents residing in distributed databases. The paper discusses in detail the problem of describing the context of practice, a distributed document architecture, and metadata based on the Dublin Core and GEM metadata standard. The paper ends with a discussion of weaknesses of the Dublin Core when documenting physically distributed documents.
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Accepted/In Press date: 1 April 2000
Published date: 6 March 2009
Keywords:
Best educational practices, Document architecture, Dublin Core, GEM, Metadata
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Local EPrints ID: 470122
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/470122
ISSN: 1091-1367
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