--A workshop hosted by TeleEd New Brunswick and the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick, Friday, March 23, 2001.

Workshop presenters: Front row, left to right: Sue Fisher, Diane Hillmann, Nick Galan Back row, left to right: Marc Bragdon, Rory McGreal, Alan Burk

Emerging metadata standards and their applications are impacting heavily on e-learning and associated initiatives for managing and making Web-accessible educational content. Representatives from national online education projects discussed their work and provided context for an introduction to the newly launched "CanCore Protocol", a metadata standard for the Canadian online learning sector.

Program

• Opening Remarks: Alan Burk, Director, Electronic Text Centre, UNB Overview of CANARIE online education projects and the need for a standard, shared metadata infrastructure. Rory McGreal, Executive Director, TeleEducation, NB; Nick Galan, Director, Portal for Online Objects in Learning (POOL)

• Keynote address: Diane Hillmann, Metadata Specialist at the National Science Digital Library Project at Cornell University and Chair of the Dublin Core User Guide Working Group
  Why I Love Metadata: (Why You Should Too)
  
  • What is metadata?
  • How does the WWW benefit from the use of metadata?
  • Why should educational businesses and organizations use metadata?
  • Introduction to Dublin Core

• Practical Applications of Metadata on the Web: Marc Bragdon, Electronic Text Centre, UNB
  • Electronic Text Centre research
  • Web content management systems
  • Guidelines for building effective metadata applications

• IMS and CanCore: Metadata for the Online Education Sector: Sue Fisher, Electronic Text Centre, UNB
  • Introduction to IMS
  • The development of the CanCore Metadata Protocol
  • Overview of the CanCore element set; sample records

• Concluding Remarks: Alan Burk, Director, Electronic Text Centre

Resources

POOL Indexing Guidelines Version 1.0 (MS Word 2000 document)
Last modified 2001/04/05

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

IMS Global Learning Consortium