PCMAT Metadata Authoring Tool
This paper introduces the PCMAT platform project and, in particular, one of its components, the PCMAT Metadata Authoring Tool. This is an educational web application that allows the project metadata creators to write the metadata associated to each learni
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PCMAT Metadata Authoring Tool Paulo Couto, Constantino Martins, Luiz Faria, Marta Fernandes, and Eurico Carrapatoso
Abstract This paper introduces the PCMAT platform project and, in particular, one of its components, the PCMAT Metadata Authoring Tool. This is an educational web application that allows the project metadata creators to write the metadata associated to each learning object without any concern for the metadata schema semantics. Furthermore it permits the project managers to add or delete elements to the schema, without having to rewrite or compile any code. Keywords Learning objects • Metadata • PCMAT • Web application
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Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the PCMAT Metadata Authoring Tool. This educational web application was developed within the context of the PCMAT project to give the project’s metadata creators a tool that would allow them to write an object’s metadata file by providing the metadata values without having to worry about the semantics of the metadata schema. To achieve its purpose, this paper provides a brief description of the extant learning objects metadata standards, followed by a description of the PCMAT platform, a project funded by the Fundac¸a˜o para a Cieˆncia e Tecnologia (FCT), and of the PCMAT Metadata Authoring Tool.
P. Couto (*) • C. Martins • L. Faria • M. Fernandes GECAD – Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, Institute of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] E. Carrapatoso Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal e-mail: [email protected] A. Madureira et al. (eds.), Computational Intelligence and Decision Making: Trends and 355 Applications, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 61, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4722-7_33, # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
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Learning Objects Metadata
33.2.1 Learning Objects and Metadata According to Wiley [1] the term “learning objects” has its roots, possibly, in “Wayne Hodgins’ 1994 use of the term in the title of the CedMA working group called Learning Architectures, API’s, and Learning Objects”, although the concept may have been firstly described by Gerard [2] when, in 1967, explained his vision of “Computer-aided learning, CAL” and the need to create and disseminate CAL materials, namely “integrating books (via microform), sound records, movies, video materials, any recorded form of man’s collective experience and creations, into computer-mobilized resources.” Learning objects (LOs) go by many names, each accompanied by its respective definition: “knowledge objects”, “instructional component”, “pedagogical documents”, “educational software components”, “online learning materials”, or just plainly “resources” [1]. Nonetheless, IEEE’s definition of learning object as “any entity, digital or non-digital, that may be used for learning, education or training” [3] is, probably, the most well known, and controversial, due to
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