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LOM - Overview
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These contents have been obtained from the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) official Web site and edited for presentation. Please refer to the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) official Web site for additional information on terms of use
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LOM is a multi-part standard that specifies Learning Object Metadata. The IEEE 1484.12.1-2002 Learning Object Metadata standard specifies a conceptual data schema that defines the structure of a metadata instance for a learning object. For this Standard, a learning object is defined as any entity -digital or non-digital- that may be used for learning, education or training.
For this Standard, a metadata instance for a learning object describes relevant characteristics of the learning object to which it applies. Such characteristics may be grouped in general, life cycle, meta-metadata, educational, technical, educational, rights, relation, annotation, and classification categories.
The conceptual data schema specified in the IEEE 1484.12.1-2002 Learning Object Metadata standard permits linguistic diversity of both learning objects and the metadata instances that describe them.
This conceptual data schema specifies the data elements which compose a metadata instance for a learning object.
The IEEE 1484.12.1-2002 Learning Object Metadata standard is intended to be referenced by other standards that define the implementation descriptions of the data schema so that a metadata instance for a learning object can be used by a learning technology system to manage, locate, evaluate or exchange learning objects.
The IEEE 1484.12.1-2002 Learning Object Metadata standard does not define how a learning technology system represents or uses a metadata instance for a learning object.
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Purpose
The purpose of this multi-part Standard is to facilitate search, evaluation, acquisition, and use of learning objects, for instance by learners or instructors or automated software processes. This multi-part Standard also facilitates the sharing and exchange of learning objects, by enabling the development of catalogs and inventories while taking into account the diversity of cultural and lingual contexts in which the learning objects and their metadata are reused.
By specifying a common conceptual data schema, the IEEE 1484.12.1-2002 Learning Object Metadata standard ensures that bindings of Learning Object Metadata have a high degree of semantic interoperability. As a result, transformations between bindings will be straightforward.
The IEEE 1484.12.1-2002, Learning Object Metadata standard specifies a base schema, which may be extended as practice develops, e.g., facilitating automatic, adaptive scheduling of learning objects by software agents. |
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LOM specifies a conceptual data schema that defines the structure of a metadata instance for a learning object. For this Standard, a learning object is defined as any entity -digital or non-digital- that may be used for learning, education or training.
A metadata instance for a learning object describes relevant characteristics of the learning object to which it applies. Such characteristics may be grouped in general, life cycle, meta-metadata, educational, technical, educational, rights, relation, annotation, and classification categories.
The conceptual data schema specified in this part permits linguistic diversity of both learning objects and the metadata instances that describe them. This conceptual data schema specifies the data elements which compose a metadata instance for a learning object.
Data elements describe a learning object and are grouped into categories. The LOMv1.0 Base Schema consists of nine such categories:
- The General category groups the general information that describes the learning object as a whole.
- The Lifecycle category groups the features related to the history and current state of this learning object and those who have affected this learning object during its evolution.
- The Meta-Metadata category groups information about the metadata instance itself (rather than the learning object that the metadata instance describes).
- The Technical category groups the technical requirements and characteristics of the learning object.
- The Educational category groups the educational and pedagogic characteristics of the learning object.
- The Rights category groups the intellectual property rights and conditions of use for the learning object.
- The Relation category groups features that define the relationship between the learning object and other related learning objects.
- The Annotation category provides comments on the educational use of the learning object and provides information on when and by whom the comments were created.
- The Classification category describes this learning object in relation to a particular classification system.
Collectively, these categories form the LOMv1.0 Base Schema. The Classification category may be used to provide certain types of extensions to the LOMv1.0 Base Schema, as any classification system can be referenced. |
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General information
Title: IEEE 1484.12.1-2002 Learning Object Metadata standard
Version: Not applicable
Release Date: 15 July 2002
Editor: Erik Duval
Status: Official standard
Electronic version: Final draft standard document available in pdf format.
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Tracking of changes
- Minor changes on several elements' structures
- Updated or added several elements' descriptions
- Addition of several new examples
- Minor modifications on several vocabularies
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The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) has been providing for the development and maintenance of the Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard since 1997. This process has been and continues to be an international effort with the active participation on the LOM Working Group by members representing more than 15 countries. Since 1997 several successive draft versions of the standard have been released. In this section is presented the evolution of these versions.
« Please note that once the LOM standard document is published by IEEE, all of the Working Group documents will be removed from the IEEE LTSC Learning Object Metadata Working Group site, and all copies of the LOM standard must be ordered and obtained from IEEE directly » |
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With IMS Metadata
- IMS member organizations have a substancial involvement —directly or through IMS Briefing and Feedback meetings— with the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee's (LTSC) LOM Working Group
- IMS member organizations have been key contributors to the Working Draft 6.1 Learning Object Metadata (LOM) document
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With ARIADNE Metadata
- ARIADNE, together with the IMS Consortium, has been one of the contributors to the different versions of LOM
- Versions of the ARIADNE Educational Metadata Recommendation are synchronized with LOM versions
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| Now that LOM is formally approved in IEEE, the CEN/ISSS/WS/LT has initiated a process to translate it into a number of European languages (CWA 14645:2003 Availability of alternative language versions of a learning resource in IEEE LOM). Translations are available for downloading from this web-site: |
| This section includes different LOM Application Profiles that have been developed to be used at a national domain: |
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