D7.3.4

=Metadata templates and schemas are defined for use at a disciplinary and institutional level. =

Evidence
Finding resources using the internet should be made easy. This can be aided by developing metadata standards for discovery across domains, by defining frameworks for interoperability, and by facilitating the development of community specific metadata sets that are consistent with this (Bianco et al. 2004).

Resources
There are different approaches to metadata. Given that most reuse is going to be intra-institutional then simple metadata and a simple database can be used. This reduces time taken to develop learning resources while still recording sufficient metadata for within institution reuse (Wright et al. 2009).

There is also a large metadata initiative: Dublin Core dedicated to promoting the adoption of interoperable metadata standards. Dublin Core Metadata defines 15 optional elements to describe digital materials on the web: Title, creator, subject, description, publisher, contributor, date, type, format, identifier, source, language, relation, coverage, rights. http://dublincore.org/schemas/