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Week’s Round-up: Metadata and terminology review December 10, 2009

Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , trackback

The two main activities this week have been a review of the fields in our metadata records and the terminology within the Learning Object Repository. We had a really active meeting looking at our metadata record fields, at the moment we have for the School LOR a simple and intermediate record, for the institutional LOR we have an advanced record, all the records reflecting different levels or complexity.  After reviewing the fields today we are now considering reducing the number of fields in the Simple record and probably abandoning intermediate for the School LOR. We have not reviewed the record for the institutional LOR, we will do this in the New Year. We want to make the  metadata relevant and straightforward for colleagues, as they will be completing the metadata for themselves for the School LOR. The consideration being if it looks too complicated colleagues will be put off completing the metadata.

With regards the terminology, now that we have a more in-depth knowledge of the system we are reviewing the help screens, instructions and some of the descriptions. The aim is to make changes where possible that align with the language we use in training and support. We have done an initial review and we will make some changes in our test environment and get feedback on these before we implement them on the live environment. It is something that we did when we implemented the VLE so it is an activity that we are familiar with.

This week I also provided an overview of the LOR for our learning and teaching group within the School of Social Sciences. Not only did I have the opportunity to demonstrate the LOR but to also introduce staff to initial developments with regards our online course, which we are gradually populating with content, such as guides to the LOR and resources on Sharing, as well as discussions where staff can comment on things like usability and sharing in general.

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