Short overview of the ARIADNE LOM Application Profile

1. ARIADNE LOM
Application Profile
Gonzalo Parra
K.U.Leuven

2. We are..
• European Association open to the World,
for Knowledge Sharing and Reuse
• ARIADNE infrastructure is a distributed
network of learning repositories

3. Centers
• Lausanne, CH
• Toulouse, FR
• Guayaquil, EC
• Leuven, BE

4. Our requirements
• Facilitate share and reuse of learning
objects
• Metadata are used to enable end users to
focus on relevant resources

5. LOM categories
1. General
2. Life Cycle
3. Meta-Metadata
4. Technical
5. Educational
6. Rights
7. Relation
8. Annotation
9. Classification

6. Our example

7. General category
LOM Field M Example
1.1.1: Identifier.Catalog Y “ARIADNE”
1.1.2: Identifier.Entry Y “CS_LKP_v_3.0_nr_2521”
(“en”, ”Metadata Standards: What, Who
1.2: Title Y & Why”)
1.3: Language Y “en-GB”
(“en”,” This Document presents the
1.4: Description Y issues related to Metadata ”)
1.8: AggregationLevel O “1”

8. Life Cycle category
LOM Field M Example
2.3.1 Contribute.Role Y “author”
2.3.2 Contribute.Entity Y Erik Duval’s VCard
2.3.3 Contribute.Date Y “2001-07-28”

9. Meta-Metadata category
LOM Field M Example
3.2.1 Contribute.Role Y “creator”
3.2.2 Contribute.Entity Y Erik Duval’s VCard
3.2.3 Contribute.Date Y “2003-02-10”
3.4 Language Y “en”

10. Technical category
LOM Field M Example
4.1 Format Y “application/pdf”
4.2 Size Y “8600”
“http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/
4.3 Location Y AriadneFinder/download?
objectid=CS_LKP_v_3.0_nr_2521”
...

11. Educational category
LOM Field M Example
5.1 InteractivityType Y “expositive”
5.2 LearningResourceType Y “narrative text”
5.3 InteractivityLevel N “high”
5.4 SemanticDensity N “high”
5.5 IntendedUserRole Y “learner”
5.8 Difficulty N “medium”
5.9 TypicalLearningTime Y “PT1H40M”

12. Rights category
LOM Field M Example
6.1 Cost Y “yes”
6.2 CopyrightAndOtherRestrictions O “yes”
6.3 Description Y* (“en”, “ use of this learning object is only permitted
after written permit from its Author”)

13. Relational category
LOM Field M Example
7.1 Kind Y “isversionof”
(“en”, ”Metadata standards version 1.0
7.2. Resource.Description Y of Erik Duval”)

14. Annotation category
LOM Field M Example
8.1 Entity Y Gonzalo Parra’s VCard
8.2 Date Y “2003-0 2-11”
(“en”, “I have read this paper and I found
it interesting, after reading it you will
8.3 Description Y have a good idea about metadata in the
field of education”)

15. ARIADNE
Classification System

16. Classification category
LOM Field M Example
9.1 Purpose Y “discipline”
9.2.1 TaxonPath.Source Y “ARIADNE”
(“en”, “Natural, Exact or engineering
9.2.2.2 TaxonPath.Taxon[1].Entry Y Sciences”)
(“en”, “Informatics/ information
9.2.2.2 TaxonPath.Taxon[2].Entry Y Processing”)

17. The result

18. Important note
An element that is considered required,
does not need to be filled out always by
the end user
• Eg: General.Identifier.Catalog = “ARIADNE”
• Automatic Metadata Generation (SAmgI):
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/samgi-service/

19. Questions?
Thanks!

20. Sources
• Learning Object Metadata: An empirical investigation and lessons learned.
Jehad Najjar.
• Duval, E., Smith, N., and Van Coillie, M. 2006. Application Profiles for
Learning. In Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE international Conference on
Advanced Learning Technologies (July 05 - 07, 2006). ICALT. IEEE Computer
Society, Washington, DC, 242-246.
• ARIADNE Educational Metadata Recommendation. EPFL, KULeuven and the
ARIADNE project.