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Towards an interoperability framework for metadata standards
DCMI '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: metadata for knowledge and learning
Theory and practice of application profile development in Australian education and training
DCMI '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: application profiles: theory and practice
To store and retrieve software components for Interactive Learning Environments: the ECR repository
International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication
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International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
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ICWL '009 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Web Based Learning
A unified approach for representing metametadata
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Towards a digital library for language learning
ECDL'06 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
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Metadata schemas relevant to online education and training have recently achieved the milestone of formal standardization. Efforts are currently underway to bring these abstract models and theoretical constructs to concrete realization in the context of communities of practice. One of the primary challenges faced by these efforts has been to balance or reconcile local requirements with those presented by domain-specific and cross-domain interoperability. This paper describes these and other issues associated with the development and implementation of metadata application profiles. In particular, it provides an overview of metadata implementations for managing and distributing Learning Objects and the practical issues that have emerged so far in this domain. The discussion is informed by examples from two national education and training communities -- Australia and Canada.