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31 Dec 2009
Education.au [edna Resources]
(Carmel Haggerty bookmarked this item)
Education.au is a national ICT agency owned by the education and training Ministers in Australia. education.au has been established to enact agreements reached by these Ministers in the Ministerial Council for Education, Employment and Youth Affairs. The business of the Agency is to develop and manage online services that are of benefit to the education and training sector and are national in scope. The Agency does this through the use of collaborative and consultative processes with the aim of [..]
30 Dec 2009
As Australia's national ICT in education agency, education.au faces the challenge of indexing web resources, learning objects and teacher-created resources for optimum discoverability by students and educators across all sectors of Australian education. This paper provides an overview of current thinking about learning architectures, and raises questions about how educational institutions are managing the cloud of learning resources currently available.
This paper, presented at an Ark Group Conference on Developing and Implementing Classification Systems, gives an overview of developments in social tagging and folksonomies. The author discusses differences between folksonomies and formal taxonomies and looks at particular issues for social tagging in enterprise information management. She also describes a proof of concept project to develop community contributions to managing information and resources, using Taxonomy-Directed Folksonomy.
07 Dec 2009
Education Network Australia (edna) [edna Resources]
(Matthew Kearney bookmarked this item)
Education Network Australia (edna) is a national cross-sectoral education project which supports, promotes and facilitates the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for learning, education, training, research and scholarship in Australia. It includes a directory of education organisations, a metadata repository of aggregated evaluated online education and training resources, free collaborative tools such as groups and email discussion lists, calendars for events and conferences[..]
13 Nov 2009
Education.au [edna Resources]
(Sue Wyatt bookmarked this item)
Education.au is a national ICT agency owned by the education and training Ministers in Australia. education.au has been established to enact agreements reached by these Ministers in the Ministerial Council for Education, Employment and Youth Affairs. The business of the Agency is to develop and manage online services that are of benefit to the education and training sector and are national in scope. The Agency does this through the use of collaborative and consultative processes with the aim of [..]
02 Sep 2009
Stuart Lewis' Blog » Direct from MS Word to DSpace via SWORD
(Nick Lothian commented on this item)
Stuart Lewis functionality added to DSpace to allow it to accept deposits from within Microsoft Word using SWORD. Create Word templates, and mark them up with required and optional fields
Nice.. SWORD is one of the few repository APIs I think is well designed and worthwhile
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Nick Lothian
24 Aug 2009
Curriculum objectives and outcomes stated in prose paragraphs readable by humans vs machine-readable crriculum objectives
18 Aug 2009
In this paper, the authors describe the extent to which DiscoverEd, a prototype developed by ccLearn, meets the design challenge of a scalable, enhanced search platform for educational resources. They then explore some of the key challenges regarding enhanced search for topic specific Internet resources generally. They conclude by illustrating some possible future developments and third-party enhancements to the DiscoverEd prototype.
04 Aug 2009
NASA's Global Change Master Directory is a comprehensive directory of information about Earth science data, including a broad coverage of global warming, the oceans, atmosphere, hydrosphere, solid earth, biosphere and human dimensions of global change.
The DCMI Identifiers Community is a forum for individuals and organisations with an interest in the design and use of identifiers in metadata. It also serves as a liaison channel for those involved in identifier efforts in other domains.
metadata Whiteboard
4 Feb 2009
Stephen Orazi wrote
Key_Field_Code > Key_Filed_Name > Key_field_type > Key_field_group > Key_field_class > key_field_role > key_field_creator > > key_field_privileges >>> Key_Description
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