Jisc: lmap

Phil Barker, du JISC Cetis, rend accessible ce draft report consacré aux résultats d'une étude de faisabilité menée dans le cadre du JISC et relative à LMAP (Learning Materials Application Profile), c'est-à-dire aux métadonnées liées aux divers supports et ressources d'enseignement.

"This report details the findings of a scoping study carried out for the JISC to investigate a potential metadata application profile for learning materials. The objective of the study was to synthesize and analyse the advice that is currently available to managers of repositories containing educational materials who need to define a metadata element set to describe those materials. The hope was that this would help define the scope of a potential Learning Materials Application Profile. There was no intention to produce an application profile as part of this work, nor was the work limited to any particular metadata schema.
Our starting point was that "learning materials" were likely to be of many different resource types (images, videos, simulations, etc.), and that each resource type would have its own metadata requirements and conventions. Furthermore, metadata would be required to support a range of activities (resource discovery, collection management, supporting accessibility, etc.), again each activity would have its own metadata requirements and conventions. Representatives from expert groups and communities relevant to each metadata specialism were interviewed in order to ascertain the range of advice available. These interviews form the basis of the synthesis of metadata requirements given in this report. In order to analyse these requirements two domain models were investigated. One model concerns the functional units of a repository, the other model concerns the entities being described by the metadata and the relationships between them. Using these it is possible to see how the metadata requirements for various resource types and activities relate to each other, to the internal and external interactions of a repository, and to the resources being described. [...]"