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CanCore Metadata - Overview
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These contents have been obtained from the Canadian Core Learning Resource Metadata Application Profile official Web site and edited for presentation. Please refer to the Canadian Core Learning Resource Metadata Application Profile official Web site for additional information on terms of use
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CanCore Learning Resource Metadata Initiative
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The initial objective of the CanCore Learning Resource Metadata Initiative was to create recommendations for the implementation of the fields in the IMS Meta-data specification. When this datamodel was standardized as the IEEE LOM standard, CanCore revised and updated these recommendations, based on the input of experts and implementers from around the world. Thanks to a grant from CANARIE, Canada’s advanced Internet development organization, a partnership was formed as a collaboration between two projects: POOL (Portal for Online Objects in Learning) and BELLE (Broadband Enabled Lifelong Learning Environments). The goal was to create a common guidebook.
This original CanCore team was made up of librarians and implementers from TeleEducation NB, the University of New Brunswick’s Electronic Text Centre, and experts from Netera and the Universities of Alberta and Calgary who created the Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects (CAREO). With the move of Terry Anderson, Norm Friesen, and Rory McGreal to Athabasca University (AU), and a new grant from CANARIE under the eduSource project, the CanCore lead was transferred to AU.CanCore Learning Resource Metadata Initiative Web Site |
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The Learning Object Metadata standard (IEEE 1484.12.1-2002 or LOM; also known as IMS Learning Resource Meta-data) is both complex and general in character, contains a broad range of elements, and leaves open many possibilities for interpretation. CanCore seeks to simplify and interpret this standard in order to help implementers and record creators with design, development, and indexing work. CanCore began this task by identifying a subset of the many elements in the LOM—selecting them on the basis of their simplicity and their utility for resource discovery and sharing. The current document, however, provides recommendations for the semantics and syntax of all LOM elements based on best practices in indexing and metadata communities. CanCore provides guidance on interpretation and implementation at a level of detail much greater than the normative information provided in the LOM—but in no cases does CanCore seek to diverge from the general, normative framework provided by the LOM. If CanCore's recommendation are used as a basis for LOM interpretations and implementations generally, the potential for the interoperability of LOM implementations will be greatly increased.
The CanCore guidelines have been developed and structured around the nine element categories in the LOM (General, Life Cycle, Meta-Metadata, Technical, Educational, Rights, Relation, Annotation, and Classification). The guidelines for the elements in each category were originally developed as separate documents, and each can be downloaded individually. In the CanCore documentation, the following information is provided for each element group as a whole:
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Title: CanCore Guidelines
Version: 2.0
Release Date: 20 November 2003
Editors: Norm Friesen, Sue Fisher, and Anthony Roberts
Status: Final |
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Version 1.9
Title: CanCore Element Set
Version: 1.9
Release Date: 13 August 2003
Editors: Norm Friesen
Tracking of changes
Revisions incorporating feedback |
Version 1.8
Title: CanCore Element Set
Version: 1.8
Release Date: 6 December 2002
Editors: Norm Friesen
Tracking of changes
Changes to synchronize CanCore metadata set with 1484.12.1 LOM |
Version 1.1
Title: CanCore Element Set 1.1
Version: 1.1
Release Date: 6 June 2002
Editors: Sue Fisher
Status: Draft version
Tracking of changes
Changes to synchronize CanCore metadata set to IMS Metadata 1.2.1 Public Draft Specification |
Version 1.0
The first public version of the Cancore Element Set (version 1.0) was released in May, 2001. |
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With LOM
- CanCore is based on and fully compatible with the IEEE Learning Object Metadata standard.
- CanCore Best Practices Guidelines are synchronized with LOM Standard
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With IMS Metadata
- CanCore is based on and fully compatible with the IMS Learning Resource Meta-data specification
- CanCore Element Set is based on IMS Metadata specification, version 1.2.1
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