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	This public Group provides a space for documenting edna metadata and collections parameters, as well as the sharing of news, resources and issues about metadata in Australian education and training. Organisations are encouraged to register their metadata application profiles, encoding schemes or vocabularies here. Please send links (or files) to askedna@edna.edu.au with a request that they be included in this Group. A Handbook of Guidelines for Metadata Usage in Australian and New Zealand Education and Training (2007) file

1	Australian Metadata Application Profiles "a declaration of the metadata terms an organization, information resource, application, or user community uses in its metadata. In a broader sense, it includes the set of metadata elements, policies, and guidelines defined for a particular application or implementation." (Dublin Core glossary) Link here to metadata application profiles in use in Australian education ANZ-LOM metadata application profile 1.01 edna resources metadata application profile 1.0 PDF document edna events metadata application profile 1.3 PDF document NSW DET Learning Resource Metadata (DETLRM) guidelines file Vetadata file WA DET teaching and learning metadata application profile (DET-TLM) PDF document Comparison of ANZ-LOM and Vetadata PDF document

This topic 2	Encoding schemes "Vocabulary Encoding Schemes indicate that the value is a term from a controlled vocabulary" (Dublin Core glossary) Include here lists of terms used to describe Australian education, eg edna-audience, edna-kla edna-audience Resource edna-curriculum Resource edna-document Resource edna-kla Resource edna-role Resource edna-sector Resource edna-spatial Resource edna-userlevel Resource ev-mode Resource ev-region Resource ev-type Resource flx-user Resource NSW DET Learning Resource Metadata (DETLRM) classification schemes PDF document Proposed scheme for professional learning accreditation bodies Resource Thesaurus used in edna metadata profile Resource TLF Controlled vocabularies: educational and technical file Vetadata Educational Use scheme file

3	Projects and activities Rights schemes implemented in edna 2009 Resource Proposed edna-rights licence list Word document Proposed changes to edna sector Resource Proposed changes to edna-userlevel Resource Proposed changes to edna-spatial Resource Proposed updates to edna-curriculum Resource Proposed updates to edna-document Resource Events metadata review Resource How do you say that? Differences in education terminology between jurisdictions Wiki Metadata glossary Metadata mappings file

4	edna search parameters Standard search Returns only the items selected by edna team, totals approx 40,000 items across all sectors The code for this is generated using the script: edna.html Distributed search Returns items from edna and its partner collections - over 1.6 million estimated total http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/search?SearchMode=distributed shows the full set of collections If the full distributed search code is more than you want, please ask to have it edited to include the collections of most interest to you. The codes/parameters are explained briefly at http://api.edna.edu.au/search.help The full documentation for edna shared services is at http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/resources/toolkit/services_documentation If you need to check anything the edna metadata standard is at http://www.edna.edu.au/metadata Test page for edna collections search Resource Embed an edna sector search in your site file Conditions of use for edna Groups file

5	ScOT Consultation March 2007 education.au was involved in the consultation stage of the Schools Online Thesaurus project Education build during March 2007. The terms recommended as part of this consultation were included in the ScOT release v6.0 in June 2007. http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/scis/resources/6_0_qas_version_1_0.pdf. For further information about the consultation process please contact Sarah Hayman or Pru Mitchell. Consultation process for ScOT Education terms, March 2007 Resource ScOT Consultation files March 2007 ScOT Consultation Forum

URI

Universal Resource Identifier. A general set of names or addresses consisting of a string of characters that refer to a resource. Also called "Uniform Resource Identifier.
URLs and URNs are types of URIs.

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