Metadata and resource quality analysis for ASPECT

1. Metadata and resource quality analysis for ASPECT Rosa María Gómez de Regil EdReNe seminar The Hague, May 19 2011

2. ASPECT project • CNDP as content provider • 379 resources produced by the SCEREN network (november 2010) • LRE v4.0 application profile • OAI/PMH repository • Quality analysis • content • Scale from 1 to 5 for each criteria • metadata

3. Quality of contents • Travell well criteria • 1. Adaptability • 2. Visual characteristics (few text, translation possibilities) • 3. Resources address curriculum topics that could be considered trans-national • 4.Interactive, customisable learning environments (like online exercises and tests). • 5. Open licence • 6. Structure • 7. Information contain in the resources is up to date or provided in real time (e.g. data feeds, news).

4. Quality of contents • 1. Adaptability • Scale : 4 • Comment : textual resources in HTML • 2. Visual characteristics • Scale: • 1 – 19% • 2 – 36% • 3 – 21% • 4 – 7% • 5 – 8 % • undetermined – 9%

5. Quality of contents • 3. Transnational curriculum topics conforming • Scale : 5 – 23 % • Comment : resources are designed for the French curriculum • 4. Interactivity • Scale: • 1 – 41 % • 2 – 28 % • 3 – 20 % • 4 – 8 % • 5 – 1 % • undetermined – 2 %

6. Quality of contents • 5. Open licence • Scale : 5 – 100 % • Comment : resources contain a rights description, but their licence is not always explicit • 6. Structure • Scale: 5 – 100 % • Comment : Well structured resources (very textual resources) • 7. Up to date • Scale : 5 – 33% • Comment : explicit update information

7. Quality of metadata • Criteria issued from the Catholic University of Leuven and CNDP feasibility • URL • Format • Rights description • Learning resource type • Document type (from LOMFR) • Analysis • completeness • pertinence • recommendations

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11. Quality of metadata • 1. URL • 44 % redirected URLs • 3% broken links • 3% authentication required • 2. Format • HTML by default • Granularity issues : images & videos included in a webpage • 3. Rights description • 19 % records do not contain a good description of rights

12. Quality of metadata • 4. Learning resource type • 37 % records do not contain this information • 2 % records need revision • 2 % records can be enriched • some records do not fit to a learning resource type • 5. Document type • 26 % records do not contain this information • 2 % records can be enriched

13. Conclusions • Quality of contents (in a travel well context) • Need to improve/adapt the offer of digital educational resources • Quality of metadata • Completeness • Globally metadata provided by CNDP is complete • Pertinence • Need of frequent verifications of URLs • Need to establish a maintenance plan of the whole corpus of metadata

14. Contact information Rosa Maria Gómez de Regil Research and development engineer rosa-maria.gomez@cndp.fr – +33 (0)5 49 49 79 14 SCÉRÉN [CNDP] @4 - avenue du Futuroscope - Téléport 1 BP 80158 - 86961 Futuroscope cedex FRANCE www.sceren.fr