London School of Economics, De Montfort University
Supported by: SIRSI, TALIS and WebCT
IMS CHARTER FOR RESOURCE LIS
INTEROPERABILITY
Nicole Harris, Project Officer
London School of Economics
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London School of Economics, De Montfort University
Supported by: SIRSI, TALIS and WebCT
Premise
• Arose from queries from 07/02 projects on metadata
mailing lists, and from discussion at last programme
meeting.
• “No metadata standard for the description of
resources associated with courses or sites
instantiated within virtual learning environments or
course management tools.”
http://www.angel.ac.uk/DELIVER
London School of Economics, De Montfort University
Supported by: SIRSI, TALIS and WebCT
Rationale
• Enable the creation of tools for the generation and
exchange of resource lists according to a standard
format; allows for the incorporation of resource list
data into other e-learning tools.
• Future efforts to integrate enterprise learning and
library course reserves system will not need to rely
on proprietary systems.
• Leverages federated searching tools to capture
records for resource lists.
• Establishes the potential for a unified resource list
creation workflow.
http://www.angel.ac.uk/DELIVER
London School of Economics, De Montfort University
Supported by: SIRSI, TALIS and WebCT
Functional Requirements
------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCE
SOURCE IDENTIFIER: = The Source of a resource, e.g. catalogue or index.
RESOURCE IDENTIFIER: = A unique identifier for the resource.
RESOURCE TYPE: = book article etc.
SOURCE: = Data required to cite the resource.
ANNOTATION: = Information added by list owner.
TIME REQUIRED: = Date range resource is relevant to a course.
REQUIRED / OPTIONAL: = Recommendation from list owner for application.
LOCATOR: = Locators associated with a resource.
EXTENSIONS: = vendor extensions to the specification.
--------------------------------------------------------- LIST
RESOURCE LIST IDENTIFIER: = A unique identifier for the list.
RESOURCE LIST CREATOR: = Creator of list.
RESOURCE LIST OWNER: = Owner of list.
RESOURCE CATEGORIES: = Definable categories for list.
NESTED RESOURCE LIST: = May subsume additional resource lists.
EXTENSIONS: = vendor extensions.
http://www.angel.ac.uk/DELIVER
London School of Economics, De Montfort University
Supported by: SIRSI, TALIS and WebCT
Out of Scope
• Persistent Locators.
• Access Management.
• Association of Course Identifiers.
• Item-specific association of resources within LMS to
resource lists.
• Update transactions.
• Definition of transport protocols.
• Annotations as separate objects.
http://www.angel.ac.uk/DELIVER
London School of Economics, De Montfort University
Supported by: SIRSI, TALIS and WebCT
Where Next
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