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DOI and LOM metadata
ELEONET aims at extending the scope of the Digital Object Identifier to the European eLearning environment through the development of a specific DOI Application Profile allowing the registration of DOIs and associated metadata onto any Learning Object (LO) produced by any kind of organization.
Using a unique and unambiguous identifier for learning resources is essential to facilitate the automatic communication between the IT systems of all the actors in the eLearning value chain (content producers, collecting societies, eLearning platforms, learning communities, etc.), thus providing a common framework for managing intellectual property entities.
Moreover, being a persistent identifier, directly actionable in the Internet, DOIs allow content producers to cite and to create a persistent link to any LOs ensuring that the citation or the link will work also in case of change of the URL where the content is published, thus solving the problem of the "404 error - file not found" message in the Internet.
When registering DOIs, learning resources are persistently linked to a set of metadata designed specifically:
- To be interoperable with the main standards for communicating and managing digital educational content (IEEE LOM v1.0 and SCORM CAM v1.3.1) as to facilitate all search functionalities along the value chain
- To increase LOs searchability through rich bibliographical and educational information about the learning resources
- To describe and classify learning resources according to widely accepted educational criteria, going further a country based approach.
Through the ELEONET system, LOs producers can easily access the three major European DOI Registration Agencies, mEDRA (represented within the Consortium through its funding partners AIE and Cineca), Nielsen BookData and TIB (through L3S research centre), all accessible through ELEONET website.
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