ASPECT VBE

Mike CollettVocabulary Management Group

Disclaimer

• The work presented here is partially supported by the European Community eContentplus programme - project ASPECT: Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content (Grant agreement number ECP-2007-EDU-417008)

• The author is solely responsible for the content of this presentation. It does not represent the opinion of the European Community and the European Community is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained therein

Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content

• 30-month Best Practice Network (Sept 08-Feb 11)

• European Commission eContentplus programme• Aims to– Develop best practice approaches to implementing

standards for educational content discovery and use– Improve the adoption of learning technology standards

and specifications– Impact on pre-standardisation activities

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Participants

EUN Partnership a.i.s.b.l. (EUN) BEKatholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven) BESiveco Romania SA (SIVECO) ROCambridge University Press (CUP) UKUniversität Koblenz-Landau (KOB) DEInstituto Nazionale di Documentazione perl’Innovazione e la Ricerca Educativa (INDIRE) ITRWCS Ltd (RWCS) UKVocabulary Management Group Ltd (VMG) UKEuropean Institute for E-Learning (EIfEL) FRUniversidad Vigo (VIGO) ESIcodeon Ltd (ICODEON) UKYoung Digital Planet S.A. (YDP) PLEduCentrum (EduC) BEUniverza v Ljubljani (UL) SI

Svietimo Informaciniu Technologiju Centras Valstybes Biudzetine Istaiga(ITC) LTDanmarks EDB-Center for Uddan (UNI•C) DKFWU Institut fur Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht GmbH. (FWU) DEDG Innovation and curriculum development (Ministry of Education) (DGIDC) PTEDUCATIO Tarsadalmi Szolgaltato Koz (EDUCATIO) HUThe Open University (OU) UKUniversity of Jyvaskylan (JYU) FICentre National de Documentation Pedagogique (CNDP) FR

ASPECT Assumption

Use & Reuse of Digital Educational Content

=Added-Value for Schools in Europe

ASPECT Services

Application Profile Registry

Vocabulary Bank for Education

What is in the VBE?

• A vocabulary contains concepts or terms• It can have structure– simple lists, hierarchical taxonomies, thesauri and ontologies.

• The vocabularies are used to:– define preferred words and definitions– provide controlled lists for use in metadata– share structures for navigation– carry additional information to support user interfaces or

searching– provide mappings between terms

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