Particular issues include how to provide seamless access to the most relevant learning materials from the wide range of resource collections on offer; how to ensure Australian-specific vocabularies are used to describe curriculum resources and how to keep pace with terminology to describe the rapidly changing world of technology in education.
As well as concerning themselves with traditional concepts of collections, cataloguing and copyright, information professionals in the education sector are now dealing with creation of metadata to describe new forms of learning including collaborative technologies, communities of practice and professional learning events. This session reports on issues, strategies and a vision for learning architectures that incorporate the best of both worlds.
Keywords: indexing, information architecture, metadata, papers, tagging, vocabularies
Posted by Pru Mitchell |
