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Metadata Specifications for OCW Repositories

The metadata specification for eduCommons-based OpenCourseWare (OCW) repositories, includes the departments, courses, objects stored in eduCommons. This specification covers:

  • Metadata stored natively within eduCommons;
  • Cataloging departments, courses and objects in eduCommons;
  • Metadata imported into eduCommons along with courses and related course materials, via IMS Content Package(s) v1.1.4;
  • Metadata imported into eduCommons via a RSS feed expressed in terms of Dublin Core;
  • Metadata exported along with courses and related course materials from eduCommons, via IMS Content Package(s) v1.1.42;
  • Metadata expressed along with eduCommons course materials, typically expressed in a Dublin Core RDF binding; and
  • Metadata expressed in RSS for eduCommons courses (and selected course materials), typically expressed in Dublin Core RDF using RSS 1.0.