LRMI Metadata in use
There was no Dublin Core conference this year, but there was the DCMI Virtual Event over the second half of September, and for the last session of that I hosted a panel session on LRMI Metadata in use....
View ArticleJSON Schema for JSON-LD
I’ve been working recently on definining RDF application profiles, defining specifications in JSON-Schema, and converting specifications from a JSON Schema to an RDF representation. This has lead to me...
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LRMI™ as a Starting Point for IEEE P2881 Standard for Learning Metadata
IEEE are standing up a working group for Learning Metadata, to build on IEEE Std 1484.12.1 Standard for Learning Object Metadata while exploring new paradigms and technology practices in education. I...
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Harmonizing Learning Resource Metadata (even LOM)
The best interoperability is interoperability between standards. I mean it’s one thing for you and I to agree to use the same standard in the same way to do the same thing, but what if we are doing...
View ArticleReading one of 25 years of EdTech
I enjoyed Martin Weller‘s blog post series on his 25 years of Ed Tech, and the book that followed, so when Lorna said that she had agreed to read the chapter on e-Learning Standards, and would I like...
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Dublin Core Tabular Application Profile
Over the last year or so I have been contributing to a Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Interest Group, lead by Karen Coyle, that has been drafting recommendations on how to create and document...
View ArticleJDX: a schema for Job Data Exchange
[This rather long blog post describes a project that I have been involved with through consultancy with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Writing this post was funded through that consultancy.]...
View ArticleStrings to things in context
As part of work to convert plain JSON records to proper RDF in JSON-LD I often want to convert a string value to a URI that identifies a thing (real world concrete thing or a concept). Simple string to...
View ArticleThoughts on IEEE ILR
I was invited to present as part of a panel for a meeting of the IEEE P 1484.2 Integrated Learner Records (ILR) working group discussing issues around the “payload” of an ILR, i.e. the description of...
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When RDF breaks records
In talking to people about modelling metadata I’ve picked up on a distinction mentioned by Staurt Sutton between entity-based modelling, typified by RDF and graphs, and record-based structures typified...
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