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ASPECT VBE. Mike Collett Vocabulary Management Group. Disclaimer. The work presented here is partially supported by the European Community eContent plus programme - project ASPECT: Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content (Grant agreement number ECP-2007-EDU-417008)
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ASPECT VBE Mike Collett Vocabulary Management Group
Disclaimer • The work presented here is partially supported by the European Community eContentplusprogramme - 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 eContentplusprogramme • 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
Participants EUN Partnership a.i.s.b.l. (EUN) BE KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven (KULeuven) BE Siveco Romania SA (SIVECO) RO Cambridge University Press (CUP) UK Universität Koblenz-Landau (KOB) DE InstitutoNazionale di Documentazioneper l’Innovazionee la RicercaEducativa (INDIRE) IT RWCS Ltd (RWCS) UK Vocabulary Management Group Ltd (VMG) UK European Institute for E-Learning (EIfEL) FR Universidad Vigo (VIGO) ES IcodeonLtd (ICODEON) UK Young Digital Planet S.A. (YDP) PL EduCentrum (EduC) BE Univerza v Ljubljani (UL) SI SvietimoInformaciniuTechnologijuCentrasValstybesBiudzetineIstaiga (ITC) LT DanmarksEDB-Center for Uddan (UNI•C) DK FWU Institut fur Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht GmbH. (FWU) DE DG Innovation and curriculum development (Ministry of Education) (DGIDC) PT EDUCATIO TarsadalmiSzolgaltatoKoz (EDUCATIO) HU The Open University (OU) UK University of Jyvaskylan (JYU) FI Centre National de Documentation Pedagogique (CNDP) FR
ASPECT Assumption Use & Reuse of Digital Educational Content = Added-Value for Schools in Europe
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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