MIT's CWSpace project: packaging metadata for archiving educational content in DSpace

This paper describes work in progress on the research project CWSpace, sponsored by the MIT and Microsoft Research iCampus program, to investigate the metadata standards and protocols required to archive the course materials found in MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) into MIT's institutional repository DSpace. The project goal is "to harvest and digitally archive OCW learning objects, and make them available to learning management systems by using Web Services interfaces on top of DSpace." The larger vision is one of complex digital objects (CDOs) successfully interoperating amongst MIT's various learning management systems and learning object repositories, providing archival preservation and persistent identifiers for educational materials, as well as providing the means to richer shared discovery and dissemination mechanisms for those materials. The paper describes work to date on the analysis of the content packaging metadata standards METS (Metadata Encoding and T...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: JODL
• Authors: William Reilly, Robert Wolfe, MacKenzie Smith
• Keywords: JODL 2006, Management Systems, Metadata, Metadata Standards