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2.7 E-learning and meta-data projects 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an open organisation, incorpo-
rated in Singapore as a public, non-profit company, involved in the development
of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes
and business models. DCMI’s activities include work on architecture and mod-
elling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task
Groups, annual conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational ef-
forts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices [121].
The Dublin Core Education Group [14] focuses on educational hypermedia and
has also opted to use LOM as their standard for meta-tagging educational material.
JISC CETIS
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Centre for Educational Tech-
nology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS) is an Innovation Support Centre
for UK Higher and Post-16 Education sectors funded by the Joint Information
Systems Committee [122], and managed by the University of Bolton. The cen-
tre provides strategic advice to the JISC, supports its development programmes,
represents the sector on international standardisation bodies and works with the
educational community to facilitate the use of standards-based e-learning [123].
The JISC CETIS is using a LOM based meta-data standard named UK LOM [123]
that basically covers the same meta-tags as LOM.
ADLNET and SCORM
The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative develops and implements
learning technologies across the U.S. Department of Defense and federal gov-
ernment. They collaborate with government, industry, and academia to promote
international specifications and standards for designing and delivering learning
content [124].
ADL has developed the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM),
which integrates a set of related technical standards, specifications, and guidelines
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