Project Underway to Create Metadata Framework For Tagging Resources

September 21, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Project Underway to Create Metadata Framework For Tagging Resources

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a project to create a common vocabulary for describing learning resources on the Internet. The technical working group has been formed and includes representatives from experts in the fields of education, publishing, and metadata. Their goal is to create a metadata framework for tagging resources that is can be easily implemented, but rich enough to assign valuable attributes to educational content to make searching and filtering easier.

This interesting information was found on eSchool News in their press release, “Education and Publishing Industry Experts Named to Learning Resource Metadata Initiative Technical Working Group.” After the working group has completed their portion of the project, it will be submitted to Bing, Google, and Yahoo! to be considered for adoption under their recently announced Schema.org initiative. If accepted, the LRMI framework would become the default standard for tagging learning resources online. At that point, the technical working group will make recommendations for long-term governance of the standard.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.