Hoi,
The IEEE LOM is a standard for providing Meta-data to the educational system. It is an open standard and it is being implemented in several countries. Technically the standard exists into two parts. the technical labels and its localisations and localised vs universal content.
There was a Dutch organisation that asked in OTRS to host the Dutch Wikipedia so that it would be able to combine the Wikipedia content with the IEEE LOM data. In principle there is nothing wrong with that. However if 50% of the Dutch data is of an universal nature, it would mean that this 50% does not need to be entered for the articles in other languages. Hosting this metadata on the Wikimedia servers makes sense; it allows for the opening up of Free content in a proprietary world. It would make a huge deduction in cost for every second language implementing the IEEE LOM data.
The questions I put to you are: * Are we willing to host open standard meta data for the educational world. * Are we willing to cooperate with organisations that are interested in implementing this data. * How will we manage such things; funds can be found to pay people doing this kind of work - can we consider this
Thanks, GerardM
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 12:35:37 +0200 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
The IEEE LOM is a standard for providing Meta-data to the educational system. It is an open standard and it is being implemented in several countries. Technically the standard exists into two parts. the technical labels and its localisations and localised vs universal content.
There was a Dutch organisation that asked in OTRS to host the Dutch
Hello,
I'm a member of OFSET international association (Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching) We are developing a live CD with free educational apps (http://www.ofset.org/freeduc-cd), and we are also interested in metadata for open educational content.
So please would you tell me
- who is this Dutch organization ?
- do they deal with open educational contents ?
Wikipedia so that it would be able to combine the Wikipedia content with the IEEE LOM data. In principle there is nothing wrong with that. However if 50% of the Dutch data is of an universal nature, it would mean that this 50% does not need to be entered for the articles in other languages. Hosting this metadata on the Wikimedia servers makes sense; it allows for the opening up of Free content in a proprietary world. It would make a huge deduction in cost for every second language implementing the IEEE LOM data.
The questions I put to you are:
- Are we willing to host open standard meta data for the educational
world.
- Are we willing to cooperate with organisations that are interested
in implementing this data.
- How will we manage such things; funds can be found to pay people
doing this kind of work - can we consider this
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