L₂O - Sharing Language Learning Objects

L₂O glossary

Application Profile

This is a community adopted adaptation of a single metadata standard.

Asset

An asset is any single level resource reduced to its smallest valid size. It can have either Pedagogical or Technical value.

CLARe

Contextual Learning Activity Repository. A University of Southampton 'closed' Repository. Used by the project to store and catalogue online resources.

CRT

Content Re-Engineering Tool. This is a TELCERT customisation of the RELOAD systems that be used to content package resources with in-house metadata requirements.

Disaggregate

This is the act of taking a resource, and breaking it down to its smallest valid component parts.

Domain Profile

This is community adopted base specifications and standards for organising metadata.

JISC

Joint Information Systems Committee. JISC is an independent advisory body that works with further and higher education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities use to use ICT to support learning, teaching, research and administration.

LOM

UKLOMCORE (often abbreviated as LOM) is a standardised metadata format. Leaning Object Metadata has been adopted by many UK eLearning projects to assist in the cataloguing of resources.

Metadata

Metadata essentially means 'data about data'. It can be either embedded or associated with files to allow extra information about the file to be passed to the reader.

RLLOMAP

This is the RDN/LTSN LOM application profile. This is becoming a widely adopted profile for the LOM metadata.

Schema

This is the defining structure of a meta data standard. Written in XML as an XSD file, it is used to valid an instance of XML for well formedness.

TELCERT

TELCERT is a research and innovation project under the European Union's 6th Framework programme. Their aim is to help transform the adoption of standards-based e-Learning products and services.