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DCMI Education Working Group - 2002

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Title: DCMI Education Working Group
Chair: Stuart Sutton, sasutton@u.washington.edu
Associate Professor
The Information School at the University of Washington
Status: This working group is currently active.
Established: 1999-08-09
Rechartered: 2001-10-27
Last Update: 2002-10-04
Charter:

The objectives of the Working Group in 2001-2002 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.

New DC-Ed Application Profile Task Group

2007-11-02, DCMI Education Community is forming a new DC-Ed Application Profile Task Group. Go to the Wiki for more information.

Community Face-to-Face Meeting

2007-08-29, The Education Application Profile Working Session at DC2007 in Singapore now has a report available

2006-10-05, The Eduation Working Group Working Session report of the DC-Education Community at DC2006 in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico is now available. (79k, pdf)

2006-10-05, The Special Session: Education Metadata: Reports from the Field report of the DC-Education Special Session: Reports from the Field at DC2006 in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico is also available.(91k, pdf)


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Milestones/Deliverables [top]

Scheduled Milestone Description Editor/Contact Status/History
December 2001 AudienceLevel proposal to Usage Board Stuart Sutton Approved: 2002/07/13
February 2002 Complete discussion of audience characteristics data Stuart Sutton Report to be presented:
2002-10-15
June 2002 Complete work gathering teaching processes and characteristics data Stuart Sutton Ongoing
August 2002 Proposal for 'type' vocabulary Stuart Sutton Report in preparation
June - August 2002 Discussion Time Line: Intrinsic learning objectives Stuart Sutton Ongoing

 

Open Issues [top]

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

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:

To Join or Leave Mailing List:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-education&A=1

To Access Mailing List archive: 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.

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.

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