An Open-ended Framework for Learning Object Metadata Interchange

This paper presents a framework for the interchange of learning object (LO) metadata schemas and describes the prototype developed under this framework. The framework is open-ended and highly scalable because of the adoption of the proposed LOM-intermediated mapping scheme and dynamic-database approach. The prototype currently transforms metadata in XML format between IMS, EdNA, Dublin Core and LOM, but can be easily extended to incorporate other schemas due to the open-ended characteristics.

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