1. Mike Collett Schemeta mike@schemeta.com Interoperability in E-learning

2. Vocabulary Management Ambition: to collate, store and reference all major vocabularies and taxonomies Tools –Vocabulary Studio - editor –Vocabulary Bank - repository

3. Key Requirements To identify concepts and related terms To map between terms in different vocabularies via a spine Tag once, classify many times To support portals and tagging tools To support multiple curricula structures

4. A spine of concepts The basic items identified in the spine are concepts. They can represent ideas, things, learning objectives - or anything at all.

5. Some basics Each concept has a name, an identifier and some administrative information. It should also have a definition.

6. Terms Terms are words or phrases associated with a concept. There may be one or many.

7. Metadata With each term will be some information. Such as who submitted it, when, a local identifier, links to deprecated terms.

8. A bit of the spine Each part of the spine of concepts can be associated with a lot of information. There are expected to be at least 30,000 parts.

9. Views Most people will only see a vocabulary published in a Bank. This may have a structure, like a thesaurus. Nodes or facets are used just to make the structure.

10. A Framework There may be additional information associated with a structure, such as help text or associated curriculum outcomes.

11. A Topic Map The structure may have several kinds of relationships (associations) between parts.

12. Curriculum Map The additional information in a curriculum map could support navigation in tools or portals.

13. Use cases Vocabulary mapping learning object meta data + Content provision ? Resource discovery ? ? ? ??

14. Rights management Identified by industry stakeholders as number 1 issue for effective development of a disaggregated system. Strategy will inform both: –industry –users Ambitions are to inform solutions through: –Metadata –Persistent identification –Best practice and guidance

15. Delivering the vision Repositories Tagging Tool Curriculum Online ContentInteroperability Quality & Excellence Stakeholders & Partners Standards & Guidelines Vocabularies Learners

16. How is progress made Leadership and change management from UK Government and its agencies Open interoperability standards - local and international, plus conformance, guidelines and advice Engagement with a wide range of stakeholders - government organisations, standards bodies, educators and suppliers All these have helped increase …

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18. Some references ADL - SCORMhttp://www.adlnet.org Bectahttp://www.becta.org.uk British Standards Institution (BSI)http://www.bsi-global.com Cabinet Office e-Government Unithttp://www.e-envoy.gov.uk CEN/ISSS WS-LThttp://www.cenorm.be/isss/workshop/lt CELEBRATEhttp://celebrate.eun.org CETIShttp://www.cetis.ac.uk Common Information Environmenthttp://www.common-info.org.uk Curriculum Onlinehttp://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk DfFEShttp://www.dfes.gov.uk/ Dublin Core Metadata Initiativehttp://www.dublincore.org E-GIFhttp://www.govtalk.gov.uk E-learning Strategyhttp://www.dfes.gov.uk/elearningstrategy/ European Schoolnethttp://www.eun.org IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committeehttp://ltsc.ieee.org IMS Global Learning Consortiumhttp://www.imsglobal.org ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36http://jtc1sc36.org Learndirecthttp://www.learndirect.co.uk LIFE: eLearning Interoperability Framework for Europehttp://life.eun.org/sites/life OASIShttp://www.oasis-open.org Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF)http://www.sifinfo.net TelCerthttp://www.opengroup.org/telcert/

19. Mike Collett mike@schemeta.com www.schemeta.com