DCMI Education Working Group

DCMI Education Working Group - 2001

Title:	DCMI Education Working Group
Chair:	Jon Mason, jmason@educationau.edu.au
Chair:	Stuart Sutton, sasutton@u.washington.edu
Status:	This working group is currently inactive under this charter. [New charter]
Established:	1999-08-09
Rechartered:	2000-10-06
Charter:	The objectives of the Working Group in 2000-2001 are to continue discussion and development of proposals for the use of Dublin Core metadata in the description of educational resources. The scope includes educational resources applicable for many national education communities and cross-sectoral communities (e.g., pre-school, K-12, further and higher education, vocational and technical training, and lifelong learning). The Working Group will continue its work in the development of qualifiers to the DCMES and/or domain specific elements, element qualifiers and value qualifiers to describe educational materials for the purpose of enhancing resource discovery.

Milestones/Deliverables [top]

Scheduled Milestone	Description	Editor/Contact	Status/History
October - November	Discussion Time Line: 'dc-ed:level'		Completed
30 November 2000	Proposal for 'dc-ed:level'	Jon Mason, Stuart Sutton	Completed
October - June	Discussion Time Line: 'type' vocabulary	Jon Mason
30 June 2001	Proposal for 'type' vocabulary	Jon Mason, Stuart Sutton
October - August	Discussion Time Line: 'dc-ed:audience' refinements
1 September 2001	Proposal for 'dc-ed:audience' refinements	Jon Mason, Stuart Sutton
October - August	Discussion Time Line: teaching/learning processes and characteristics
1 September 2001	Proposal for teaching/learning processes and characteristics	Jon Mason, Stuart Sutton

Open Issues [top]

A list of as yet unresolved issues, or those ideas or problems that are still under discussion.

Resource 'type' vocabulary development - See Milestones/Deliverables for 2000-2001

'dc-ed:audience' element refinement - See Milestones/Deliverables for 2000-2001

Teaching/learning processes and characteristics - See Milestones/Deliverables for 2000-2001

Forums [top]

Decisions are made by obtaining a consensus from a broad range of individuals and organizations. Listed here are some of the places where discussions take place:

Working Group mailing list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-education.html

Background [top]

Information on discussions and decisions that were used to support the creation of this working group.

History [top]

Information on when this working group was constituted, dates of group meetings and results from those meetings, etc.

Date constituted: 1999-08-09

DC-7 Face-to-Face Meetings: October 1999 (Frankfurt, Germany)

Australian Face-to-Face Meeting: February 2000 (Melbourne, Australia) - Draft Proposal

DC-Education Draft Proposal to DC Advisory Committee: 2000-04-30

DC-8 Face-to-Face Meetings: October 4-5, 2000 (Ottawa, Canada)

Revised DC-Education Draft Proposal to DC Advisory Committee: 2000-10-05

Date rechartered: 2000-10-06

Previous Charter and Working Group home page

Related Work [top]

Links to groups, reports, software, projects, etc. that would be of interest to the participants of this working group.

Resources [top]

Information, standards and reports that were used to support the decisions and discussions in this working group.

2000-2001

2000-10-05: DCMI Education working group meeting at DC-8 in Ottawa. Meeting Report.

1999-2000

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