MetaTrust and Australian standards via Education Network Commonwealth of Australia
This page provides descriptions of a wide range of Australian and overseas projects and initiatives relevant to the development of technical standards for education and training.
Australian Groups and Projects
Business Entry Point
NTIS - National Training Information Service
OZJAC - The Australian Course and Careers Database
Subject Gateways
IMESH toolkit
Victorian Education Channel
Overseas Groups and Projects
Dublin Core Education Working Group
GEM: The Gateway to Educational Materials
PROMETEUS
ARIADNE
Intellectual Property Management Initiatives
Propagate Project
OpenRights Initiative
InterTrust The metatrust utility
IMAGO Multimedia Law
indecs - interoperability of data in e-commerce systems
Australian Groups and Projects
See also the Key Australian Activities section for other Australian standards related projects.
Business Entry Point
The Business Entry Point (BEP) is an initiative of the Australian Federal Government, and all States and Territories. It provides a service to Australian businesses to make it easier to deal with government.
Main site: business.gov.au
For information about the use of metadata in the Business Entry Point, go to about.business.gov.au and select "Technical Issues".
NTIS - National Training Information Service
The National Training Information Service (NTIS) is a database on vocational education and training in Australia. It contains detailed information on courses, qualifications, training packages, competency standards and training organisations.
anta.gov.au
OZJAC - The Australian Course and Careers Database
"OZJAC is an easy-to-use computer program that can help young people and adults find the answers to their job, course and career questions. It brings together information on all accredited courses in Australia, links courses to jobs, and jobs to industry, with explanations of new concepts used in education, training and the labour market."
curriculum.edu.au
Subject Gateways
The National Library homepage on Subject Gateways is at:
nla.gov.au
A number of Clearinghouses were established in Australia under the "Univserve" initiative but these are longer centrally supported. Clearinghouses being maintained by their host institutions are listed at: anu.edu.au. This includes Clearinghouses for Engineering, Health, Humanities & Social Science, Law and Science
Other Australian Subject Gateways include:
Metachem: a catalogue of chemistry resources which uses metadata technology from the DSTC.
metachem.ch.adfa.edu.au
Agrigate: An Agriculture Information Gateway for Australian Researchers
agrigate.edu.au
Australasian Virtual Engineering Library - AVEL: A gateway to Australasian engineering & IT resources.
avel.library.uq.edu.au
The Resource Discovery Network in the UK provides access to a range of UK based Subject Gateways. rdn.ac.uk
IMESH toolkit
An architecture and toolkit for distributed subject gateways. The project will build on existing subject gateway software to develop a configurable, reusable and extensible toolkit for subject gateway providers.
imesh.org
The National Library of Australia recently hosted a working meeting of the Australian subject gateways. It was the first time all gateway owners were able to come together to discuss issues and intentions in common. A full report of the meeting is available at:
nla.gov.au
Victorian Education Channel
The Victorian Education Channel is being developed to integrate the range of educational online initiatives, including the provision of online quality educational content to schools, TAFE Institutes, and the vocational education and training sector. A metadata standard compatible with EdNA is being developed.
sofweb.vic.edu.au
Overseas Groups and Projects
Dublin Core Education Working Group
The objectives of the working group are to discuss and develop a proposal for the use of Dublin Core metadata in the description of educational resources. The scope includes educational resources applicable for many national education communities and cross-sectoral communities (e.g., K-12, further and higher education and lifelong learning).
The working group will develop qualifiers and/or extensions to the Dublin Core element set that will describe educational material for the purpose of enhancing resource discovery. It is expected that the resulting metadata will include educational qualifiers that fall within the scope of existing Dublin Core elements and potentially some that are specific to the domain of education.
purl.org
Information on the Working Group's Mailing list is at: mailbase.ac.uk
GEM: The Gateway to Educational Materials
"When teachers connect to The Gateway, they are able to access the Internet-based educational resources of participating GEM Consortium members. When they use The Gateway database, rather than an Internet search engine, teachers are able to locate resources they need quickly and efficiently."
"The Gateway currently includes resources from more than 100 collections, including the AskERIC Virtual Library, Math Forum, Microsoft Encarta, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and U.S. Department of Education."
Project information: geminfo.org
Search The Gateway: thegateway.org
PROMETEUS
PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society.
"With a clear underlying ideal of promoting the access to knowledge, education and training for all European citizens - regardless of their age, their work situation, their geographical location or their social status, the PROMETEUS initiative, which has already brought together hundreds of public and private sector key players will seek, as a permanently open forum, to build, express and voice consensus views on any relevant issue that may be presented for its consideration.
In particular, the following issues will be addressed:
optimal strategies for multicultural, multilingual learning solutions,
new instructional and training approaches and new learning environments,
affordable solutions & platforms based on open standards and best practices,
publicly accessible and interoperable knowledge repositories."
prometeus.org
ARIADNE
The Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe (ARIADNE) is a project funded by the European Union Commission. It focuses of "the development of tools and methodologies for producing, managing and reusing computer-based pedagogical elements and telematics supported training curricula."
ariadne.unil.ch
Intellectual Property Management Initiatives
Propagate Project
"The Propagate research project as originally envisaged has now been completed. ... The Propagate Project was established in late 1996 by two Australian Cooperative Multimedia Centres (Access CMC and Impart Corporation) with a grant from DETYA to work on ways to solve the many issues surrounding copyright and multimedia. Propagate liaised closely with the Imprimatur Project, supported by the European Union, which had done pioneering work in developing consensus based abstract classifications for the various roles involved in trading intellectual property. They had also developed a number of business and process models for various markets using these classifications."
"Propagate aimed to solve the rights management problems of multiple media types in a digital environment and the reuse issues that will soon dominate sectors such as education, science and research. Propagate built on the Imprimatur project's abstract language and market business models, and in a coordinated effort, developed a truly innovative architecture for managing and trading rights and the assets to which such rights are attached."
propagate.net
OpenRights Initiative
The MetaTrust Utility announces the OpenRights Initiative
openrights.com
InterTrust The metatrust utility
intertrust.com
IMAGO Multimedia Law
This site is designed to provide multimedia producers with instructive information on copyright. It will examine the categories of multimedia content which qualify for copyright protection in Australia. It will also tell you how to find copyright owners and negotiate licences to use their material.
wwwlaw.murdoch.edu.au
indecs - interoperability of data in e-commerce systems
<indecs> (interoperability of data in e-commerce systems) is an international initiative of rights owners creating metadata standards for e-commerce. It is supported under the European Commission info2000 programme embracing multimedia rights clearance systems (MMRCS).
indecs.org
See also Bearman D, Miller E, Rust G, Trant J, Weibel S, "A Common Model to Support Interoperable Metadata: Progress report on reconciling metadata requirements from the Dublin Core and INDECS/DOI Communities" in D-Lib Magazine, January 1999
dlib.org
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