=== Document Metadata ===
||'''Title:'''||DC-Ed Application Profile Functional Requirements||
||'''Creator:'''||DC-Education Application Profile Task Force (Hillmann/Currier)||
||'''Date Created:'''||2009-12-27||
||'''Date Revised:'''||2010-01-22||
||'''Document Status:'''||Pre-discussion Draft||
||'''Description:'''||This is a draft discussion document proposing a set of functional requirements 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. Discussion Functional Requirements ==

||'''CANDIDATE FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT'''||'''DRAFT PROPOSAL'''||'''ALTERNATE DRAFT PROPOSAL'''||'''DISCUSSION SUMMARY'''||'''CANDIDATE PROPERTY SOLUTION'''||
||'''FR1: Resource Discovery (General)'''||Support the ''discovery'' of learning resources and activities in order to help meet people's teaching and learning aims.[[http://tinyurl.com/yz4jwso 1]]||Support the ''finding, sharing and managing'' of learning resources and activities in order to help meet people's teaching and learning aims.[[http://tinyurl.com/ygcmpoq 2]]--||-- ||-- ||
||'''FR2: Curriculum Subject Areas'''||Support the discovery of learning resources and activities designed for particular national, regional or other curriculum subject areas. [[http://tinyurl.com/ygcmpoq 2]]||-- ||-- ||dcterms:subject (?) ||
||'''FR3: Resource Level of Difficulty'''||Support the discovery of learning resources and activities targeted at particular levels of difficulty. [[http://tinyurl.com/ygcmpoq 2]]||-- ||-- ||lom:difficulty ||
||'''FR4: Resource Pedagogical Approach'''||Support the discovery of learning resources and activities that follow a particular pedagogic approach.[[http://tinyurl.com/ygcmpoq 2]]||-- ||-- ||dcterms:instructionalMethod ||
||'''FR5: Particular Audience Needs'''||Support the discovery of learning resources and activities targeted at the needs of people with particular special educational needs.[[http://tinyurl.com/ygcmpoq 2]]||-- ||-- ||dcterms:audience ||
||'''FR6: Particular Learning Objectives'''||Support the discovery of learning resources and activities designed to support achievement of specific learning objectives.||--||Both ad hoc and authoritatively prescribed?||dcterms:conformsTo ||
||'''FR7: Educational level'''||Support the discovery of learning resources and activities targeting an audience in terms of its progression through an educational or training context.||-- ||-- ||dcterms:educationLevel; lom:context ||
||'''FR8: Typical Learning Time'''||Support selection of learning resources and activities based on the typical time it takes it takes to work with or through the resource.||-- ||-- ||lom:typicalLearningTime ||
||'''FR9: Typical Age Range'''||Support selection of learning resources and activities based on the typical age range of the intended user of the resource. ||-- ||-- ||lom:typicalAgeRange ||
||'''FR10: Interactivity Type'''||Support selection of learning resources and activities based on the type of interactivity supported by the resource.||-- ||-- ||lom:interactivityType ||
||'''FR11: Interactivity Level'''||Support selection of learning resources and activities based on the level of interactivity supported by the resource.||-- ||-- ||lom:interactivityLevel ||
||'''FR12: Semantic Density'''||Support selection of learning resources and activities based on the semantic density of the resource.||-- ||-- ||lom:semanticDensity ||
||'''FR13: Intermediary Audience'''||Support selection of learning resources and activities based on the an agent class that mediates access to the resource.||-- ||-- ||dcterms:mediator ||

[1] [http://tinyurl.com/yz4jwso http://tinyurl.com/yz4jwso] 

[2] [http://tinyurl.com/ygcmpoq http://tinyurl.com/ygcmpoq]
 
== 2. Use Cases ==

The following discussion of Use Case Functional Requirements ("UCFR") have been derived from the [http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/Use_20Cases Use Cases].


||'''FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS'''||'''NOTES'''||[http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/Use_20Cases USE CASES]||'''DISCUSSION SUMMARY'''||
||'''UCFR1''': Re-purposing existing resource for use in education||For instance, tagging museum resources with metadata describing educational purposes / contexts it might be useful for, or has been used in.||011; 017; 018; 029 ||-- ||
||'''UCFR2''': Machine-readable AP||For validation of metadata and vocabularies during a range of harvesting, searching and transformation processes.||020||-- ||
||'''UCFR3''': Part-whole relationships in content aggregations||For finding, re-using and re-purposing components of aggregate learning objects.||030||-- ||
||'''UCFR4''': Metadata harvesting||Must be able to harvest educational metadata fields, so AP needs to be a format that can be requested via OAI-PMH.||001; 004; 007; 011; 012; 013; 014; 019; 020; 029; 040||-- ||
||'''UCFR5''': Searchable & retrievable via SRU/SRW (Search/retrieve by URI and search/retreive by web service (SOAP))||Must be able to search educational metadata fields via SRU/SRW, and have full AP record (including educational fields) returned by searches.||001; 013; 020||-- ||
||'''UCFR6''': Interoperable /compatible with other educational metadata standards and formats|| Includes SCORM packages (which use LOM metadata at present) ; compatibility with learning platforms (LMSs/VLEs usually requires a SCORM or IMS Content Package, or IMS Common Cartridge , and LOM metadata) ; compatibility with IEEE LOM (mixing and matching elements) ||03; 006; 013; 030; 031; 036; 041||-- ||
||'''UCFR7''': Authority / community reputation: "who says?"||Who says that a resource meets a particular educational achievement standard? Who says the resource was easy to use within a particular pedagogical approach or educational context? Etc. One use case required that not only is the person or institution making a statement required, but their role is also required (e.g whether the person making the statement is a teacher, librarian, student, etc.).||032; 033; 041; 044; 046||-- ||
||'''UCFR8''': Is intended for vs. Was used in||Differentiation between statements made about the intention of a resource, and metadata describing post hoc how the resource was used. For instance, a resource may have been created as an online module for post-graduate research methods in engineering, but has been successfully re-used in an undergraduate face-to-face tutorial.||042; 046; 047||-- ||
||'''UCFR9''': Controlled vocabularies vs. free text and/or user tagging (folksonomies).||For some properties, any given organisation or application may wish to allow for controlled vocabularies to be defined, or for free-text keywords, terms or tags to be added.||022; 023||-- ||
||'''UCFR10''': Classification browsing||Browsing by structured vocabularies.||??||-- ||
||'''UCFR11''': Crosswalk or mapping of vocabularies||Particularly important where taxonomies of learning outcomes, local curricula etc are used across various services wanting to allow cross-searching.||045; 047||-- ||
||'''UCFR12''': Extensibility for discipline-specific metadata standards to be incorporated||Music and language learning are the two examples given in use cases||034; 037||-- ||
||'''UCFR13''': Compatibility with IMS QTI (standard for describing assessments- Question & Test Interoperability)||IMS QTI extends the LOM [[http://www.imsglobal.org/question/qti_v2p0/imsqti_mdudv2p0.html 1]]||??||-- ||

[1] [http://www.imsglobal.org/question/qti_v2p0/imsqti_mdudv2p0.html http://www.imsglobal.org/question/qti_v2p0/imsqti_mdudv2p0.html]