Use of Metadata Standards

Owned by Benjamin Wulff
Last updated: Jan 10, 2017 by Abi James
Status

IN PROGRESS

Stakeholders@All
Outcome
Due datepost 2.0
Owner
Benjamin Wulff 

Background

The use of metadata has been raised several time during the project and since this project is about Linked Open Data, we will definitely come to using one or more standards.

The aim of this discussion is

  1. to identify suitable metadata standards
  2. decide in which part of the system / for which objects a certain standard should be used

 

1 Metadata Standards

NameURLComments
Schema.orghttp://schema.org
  • sponsored by several bug companies
  • project to generate free general-purpose vocabularies
  • bad description of the ontology
Dublin Corehttp://dublincore.org/
  • schema for describing documents and web-resources (not their content)
  • used by some OS/Linux projects
  • http://purl.org/dc/terms
FOAF (Friend of a Friend)http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/
  • schema for describing relations among persons
  • widely used
SIOChttp://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/
  • schema for describing online communities
  • widely used
DOAPhttps://github.com/ewilderj/doap/wiki
  • coolest name ever
  • schema for describing software projects and their dependencies
  • for data exchange between software directories
  • for automatic configuration for resources such as shared CVS repositories or bug trackers
  • assisting package maintainers who bundle software for distributors

LOM (IEEE Standard for Learning Object Metadata)

https://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/1484.12.1-2002.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_object_metadata

  • heiracrhical schema for describing learning objects to assist with searching, and sharing.
  • based on Dublin Core and used in SCROM
  • includes information on the licence, language, topic etc
  • has been used in recent OER projects eg http://portal.opendiscoveryspace.eu/

 

2 Application of Metadata Standards

Dublin Core

Since DC is for describing the properties of a document or resource (such as title, author, dateAccepted, relates) it seems to be a good standard for describing our Decks (and Slides). 


Schema.org

Since Schema.org aims to provide a general purpose (can one call it world-knowledge) vocabulary it seems to be a good standard for describing the contents of Slides.

Metadata can also help Accessibility

See https://slidewiki.atlassian.net/wiki/x/I4Aa


Related: Semantic representation