CIDOC 2000 Using GEM Metadata to Access Education Resources Nancy Virgil Morgan Coordinator nmorgan@iis.syr.edu.

CIDOC 2000

Using GEM Metadata to Access Education Resources

Nancy Virgil MorganCoordinator

nmorgan@iis.syr.edu

CIDOC 2000

Presentation Outline

• About GEM

• Dublin Core & GEM Metadata

• GEM Architecture and Tools

• 2000 Priorities

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GEM’s Mission

Consortium effort to improve

access to uncataloged collections

of educational materials on non-

profit, commercial, and

government Internet sites.

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Sponsors

U.S. Department of Education

ERIC Clearinghouse on

Information & Technology

Syracuse University

School of Information Studies

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Timeline

Nov ‘96

Stakeholders Meeting

June ‘97

PresentationU.S. Dept. of Ed.

Mar. ‘00

The Gateway

online

Aug ‘00

12,358records

Jan ‘98

200Consortium

members

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As of July 31, 2000

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As of July 31, 2000

http://www.thegateway.org

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GEM Metadata Profile

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Metadata

• Structured information that describes, manages, and organizes resources

– card catalog describes, manages, organizes library resources

– GEM record describes, manages, organizes Internet education resources

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Open Standard:Dublin Core

• Coverage

• Creator

• Date

• Description

• Format

• Identifier

• Language

• Other Contributor

• Publisher

• Relation

• Resource Type

• Rights

• Source

• Subject

• Title

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GEM Elements

• Audience• Duration• Essential Resources• Grade Level• Pedagogy• Quality Indicators• Academic Standards• Cataloging Agency

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GEM Controlled Vocabularies

• Subject• Resource Type• Pedagogy• Audience• Grade/Education Level• Format

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Creating GEMMetadata

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Creating GEM Metadata

• GEMCat Cataloging Module: create individual metadata records.

• Database Collections: write script/program/query to output GEM records

• Future: researching the use of Natural Language Processing to automate metadata creation.

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GEM Architecture and Tools

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Resources

SeparateMetadata

EmbeddedMetadata

GEMCat

GEM Cataloged Resources

edit

catalog

Creating/Editing Metadata

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SeparateMetadata

EmbeddedMetadata

HARVEST

local harvest

web harvest

Index files

Files from DB driven collections

Harvest Process

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SeparateMetadata

EmbeddedMetadata

HARVEST

local harvest

web harvest

Index files

Files from DB driven collections

Full Site Index(The

Gateway)

Harvest Process

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Why use Metadata?

• Lack of precision in web searching

• Time-consuming for user to determine quality, authority

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Why use Metadata?

Economics of traditional cataloging

• Internet resources move,disappear

• Users “one click away” from the resource

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Why use Metadata?

• Establishes a consistent means to search across websites while maintaining your autonomy

• Brings users to your site

• The Gateway searches 12,000 resources across 150 websites.

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Why use Metadata?

Customized interfaces to the same metadata catalog

www.thegateway.org

www.nea.org/gem

education.go.com

www.teachers-connect.net/

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Why use Metadata?

Allows organizations to create own “Gateways”:

• CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network)

• MCI Marco Polo Project

– 6 partner sites

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Why use Metadata?

• National Institute for Literacy – LINCS– Network of adult literacy websites

• NASA –Office of Space Science– Distributed NASA educational

materials

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2000 Priorities

• Academic Standards• Vocabulary Registries • Higher and Adult Education• Working Groups• Continued growth - membership,

content, users

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For More Information:

Email:

geminfo@geminfo.org

or visit:

http://www.geminfo.org/