=== Document Metadata ===
||'''Title:'''||DC-Ed Application Profile Scope Specification||
||'''Creator:'''||DC-Education Application Profile Task Force (Hillmann/Currier)||
||'''Date Created:'''||2010-01-22||
||'''Date Revised:'''||--||
||'''Document Status:'''||Pre-discussion Draft||
||'''Description:'''||This is a draft discussion document proposing a set of scope notes for the DC-Ed Application Profile and is not intended for use in metadata or to be cited as other than "pre-discussion draft".||
||'''Contact:'''||Sarah Currier, [mailto:sarah.currier@GMAIL.COM]; Diane Hillmann, [mailto:dih1@cornell.edu]||


== 1. Scope Notes ==


||'''SCOPE NOTE'''||'''DRAFT PROPOSAL'''||'''ALTERNATE DRAFT PROPOSAL'''||'''DISCUSSION SUMMARY'''||
||'''SN1: General Scope'''||The DC-Education Application Profile (DC-Ed AP) is intended to describe a precise category of "things in the world"--those things that have been deliberately purposed (or re-purposed) for use in the processes of formal and informal teaching and learning.[[http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/Classes 1]]||'''[SN1a]'''The DC-Education Application Profile (DC-Ed AP) is intended to describe a precise category of "things in the world"--those things that have been deliberately used (or re-used) in the processes of formal and informal teaching and learning.[[http://tinyurl.com/ydbr6jp 2]]||-- ||
||'''SN2: Scope Limitation'''||The DCEd-AP is limited to defining use of properties describing the educational characteristics of a resource.  Properties describing general descriptive attributes of a resource or properties describing use of a resource in contexts other than teaching and learning, are outside the scope of the application profile.||-- ||-- ||

[1] [http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/Classes http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/Classes] 

[2] [http://tinyurl.com/ydbr6jp http://tinyurl.com/ydbr6jp]