Slide1: Schemas Workshop
Bath 11th May 2000
Mariano Sanz Prieto
ETB Project Manager
The European Schools
Treasury Browser
Slide2: Duration: 26 months Start: 1st February 2000
Coordinatoor: Committee for the Schoolnet (S)
Partners:
Biblioteca di Documentazione Pedagogica (IT)
Danmarks EDB Center for Forskning og Uddannelse (DK)
European Commission Joint Research Centre (I)
Lunds Universitet (S)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (D)
Fundación Universidad Empresa (E)
FWU Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht Gemeinnützige Gmbh (D)
MAKASH - Advancing CMC Applications in Education, Culture and Science (IL)
Lambrakis Research Foundation (EL)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (I)
InformationsZentrum Sozialwissenschaften der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Institute e.V. (D)
Objectives of ETB: Objectives of ETB To build a Web educational resource Metadata Networking infrastructure for schools in Europe
To link together existing national repositories
To encourage new publication
To provide a reliable level of quality and structured added value to those systems by an interoperable layer to help teachers and students to locate resources
BUILD THE “SCHOOLNET INFORMATION SPACE”
Key points: Key points The ease of use of tools
publishing resources
locating relevant information
Materials are published at the schools or through national or regional repositories
Slide5: Create a decentralised system that produces information which is classified, structured and/or presented according to uniform data models
(Each country and every player in each country
should have full autonomy in the management
-decentralised-, but at the same time
be part of the system -common templates, multilinguality, reduce heterogeneity-)
Planned Components: Planned Components Web enabled multilingual educational subject classification and thesaurus
European Subject Thesaurus and Classification
Intelligent data-entry system for the end user
Intelligent Metadata Authoring Tool
Dynamic Metadata network
Harvesting Web sites -PULL-
Searching repositories remotely -Z39.50-
Transfer metadata records to registry -PUSH-
Metadata registry with an intuitive search interface
ETB metadata registry
“Soft” Elements: “Soft” Elements Guidelines for the quality management processes of those repositories
First set of interchangeable uniform descriptors for schools
Guarantee the exchange of data (projects, products, best practice) based on quality selection criteria
Slide8: Interoperabillity
Extension of Dublin Core Semantics
Controlled Vocabulary
Integrating a Thesaurus in the metadata infrastructure
NNTP based Metadata Networking
Monolingual Searching, multilingual indexing and harvesting
EUN Metadata Set (I): EUN Metadata Set (I) DC.Title DC.Title.Alternative
DC.Creator DC.Creator.PersonalName
DC.Creator.PersonalName.Address DC.Creator.CorporateName DC.Creator.CorporateName.Address
DC.Subject None
DC.Description None
DC.Publisher DC.Publisher.PersonalName DC.Publisher.PersonalName.Address DC.Publisher.CorporateName DC.Publisher.CorporateName.Address
DC.Contributor DC.Contributor.PersonalName DC.Contributor.PersonalName.Address DC.Contributor.CorporateName DC.Contributor.CorporateName.Address Elements Subelements
EUN Metadata Set (II): EUN Metadata Set (II) DC.Date DC.Date.Created
DC.Date.Issued
DC.Date.X-LastModified
DC.Date.Available
DC.Date.Valid
DC.Date.X-MetadataLastModified
DC.Type None
DC.Format DC.Format.X-Requirements
DC.Format.X-Size
DC.Identifier None Core Syntax
DC.Source May take any Dublin Core element except
Source and Relation as a subelement
DC.Language None
DC.Relation None
DC.Coverage DC.Coverage.PlaceName
DC.Coverage.PeriodName
DC.Rights DC.Rights.X-Price
EUN Metadata Set (III): EUN Metadata Set (III) EUN.Approver EUN.Approver.PersonalName
EUN.Approver.PersonalName.Address
EUN.Approver.CorporateName
EUN.Approver.CorporateName.Address
EUN.UserLevel None
EUN.Version None
EUN.Release None
Work-packages groups: Work-packages groups Survey of existing repositories
Recommendations on Quality Criteria
Establishment of a multilingual access to the repositories
Technical Developments
Validation and Explotation
Survey of existing repositories (WP2): Survey of existing repositories (WP2) In depth survey of the existing educational repositories currently available on the Internet
find out general characteristics of the repository (content focus, size...) and technology used (databases, interfaces, search engines)
identify issues concerning:
use of metadata or other labelling systems
classification, controlled vocabulary and multilingual support
quality assurance processes
analyse existing national policies regarding all issues addressed in the survey
Slide14: DESIGN OF THE SURVEY
Development of the Questionnaire (February-April)
presentation of the questions to the ETB partners during the kick-off meeting (February)
feedback discussions and review of draft (February-April)
finalising the questionnaire (March)
creation of dynamic web pages and ETB-database ( etb.eun.org ) March, April)
questionnaire online 05/05/2000
Get in contact with related projects
REYNARD, SCHEMAS, INDECS, DESIRE, DC, DELOS
Slide15: Identification of Contacts ( March-May)
get information on the repositories at the national server and
get references of other repositories at national, regional or local level
Letter drafting and sending to back up contact addresses
overall aim: contact 200 institutions by e-mail
Slide16: The ETB questionnaire consists of 50 questions :
1) About
to discover the general characteristics of the educational repository, for example its scope, content focus and size
2) Practice and Use
focuses on the practical use of repository such as the technologies used, editorial conventions and other offered services
3) Quality Maintenance & Metadata
quality assurance processes regarding the content, the metadata and existing policies behind
Recommendations on Quality Criteria: Recommendations on Quality Criteria Research on quality assessment (WP3)
provide recommendations about quality selection processes
propose a SCHEME for quality management processes
Guidelines for Harmonisation and Standardisation (WP4)
definition of recommended standards and guidelines for the description of the information sources to be included in the ETB
close collaboration with the Ministries of Education
Establishment of a multilingual access to the repositories: Establishment of a multilingual access to the repositories Schools Repository Thesaurus (WP5)
creation of a multilingual Thesaurus in 5 languages
1000 terms
Multilinguality (WP6)
supporting multilinguality and reducing heterogeneity
Technical Developments: Technical Developments Metadata Toolkit (WP8)
Set of tools for the publication of metadata
Metadata Networking Infrastructure (WP9)
define the methodology for quality assessed information exchange
specify, implement and evaluate the technical infrastructure to support this methodology
Metadata Registry, Search and Editorial Control (WP10)
design and build the metadata registry
this system will ingest, index and organise the flow of metadata records from the network
Validation and Explotation: Validation and Explotation Dissemination and Implementation (WP7)
Establish communication & links between related projects, programmes and initiatives
Encourage access, use and uptake of ETB tools and services
Foster adoption of conventions
Share information amongst the community of users
Assessment and evaluation (WP11)
Dissemination Tools: Dissemination Tools Website development http://etb.eun.org
Database-driven, coldfusion, EUN metadata set
Establish contacts with related projects
REYNARD, SCHEMAS, INDECS, DESIRE, DELOS, CULTIVATE, META-E
E-mail Newsletter, issue 1 in June
Covering resources, research, events, standards, activities
Brochure - aims, goals, partnership
Articles on project activities from WPs
Handbook on ETB Tools and Systems
Workshops and Meetings: Workshops and Meetings Workshop 1 [July-September 2000 ]
Topics of discussion:
(a) “Classification areas”, input for multilinguality (WP6), (b) “How to share Metadata”
Workshop 2 [Mayo 2001]
(a) Consensus on quality management, quality criteria
(b) Presentation by WP6 of the first “concordances” based on English and other main languages.
Participants: School Networks Webmasters, EUN Editorial Board, experts.
Workshop 3 [Febrero 2002 ]
(a) Thesaurus: presentation of the final version, (b)ETB: results, demo of beta
Participants: EUN Editorial Board, experts, projects’ representatives, educators.