Only a single resource can be annotated per annotation record
Only a single annotation is allowed per record. Multiple annotations for the same resource need to use multiple records
Helps manage pathways to the DLESE Reviewed Collection (DRC)
Can indicate a status for the annotation (complete, in progress)
Allows for annotation to be either the actual text or a URL to the annotation or an overall rating of the resource
Indicates format of the annotation (text, graphical, audio)
Must annotate resources using the resource's id (catalog) number; URLs are not allowed.
Captures the person or organization making the annotation
Can indicate a format of the annotation (text, audio, graphical, video)
Can rate a resource
Version changes
The following describes the differences and changes between annotation version 0.1.01 and version 1.0.00.
Contributor - (person or organization) is now required metadata
Person must have first name, last name, institutional affiliation, email, role and date of contribution; can also indicate whether to make the person's name and email displayable information
Organization must have name, role and date of contribution; can also indicate whether to make the organization displayable information
Annotation type - changed the controlled vocabulary (see type.xsd)
Changed term:
Information on challenging teaching and learning situations
to
Challenging audience
Changed term: Average scores of aggregated indices to
Quantitative information
Removed terms: Advice, Annotation, Change, Explanation, Question (because so similar in nature)
Added terms: Misconception, Skill, Assessment strategy (needed by Community Review System pedagogical content knowledge service)
Status - made the ideas of status and format separate elements and changed the status controlled vocabulary (see status.xsd)
Removed terms: Audio annotation completed, Audio annotation in progress, Graphical annotation completed, Graphical annotation in progress, Text annotation completed, and Text annotation in progress
Added terms: Completed, In progress, Retired
Format - new metadata field to capture the format part of the version 0.1.01 status field; uses a controlled vocabulary
(see format.xsd)
Added terms: Text, Audio, Graphical, Video
Pathway - moved its location from the item element to the service element; controlled vocabulary remains the same
Content - is no longer an either or field where description or URL is present; rather both can be present along with the new field of rating
Rating - new metadata field to capture a collection specific judgment about a resource; uses a controlled vocabulary
(see rating.xsd)
Added terms:
One star - definition is collection specific and provided by the collection builder
Two star - definition is collection specific and provided by the collection builder
Three star - definition is collection specific and provided by the collection builder
Four star - definition is collection specific and provided by the collection builder
Five star - definition is collection specific and provided by the collection builder
ItemID - moved its location from the item element to its own itemID element
MoreInfo - new metadata field that allows for additional annotation information in the form of an XML document (not text)
Date - date as a separate element under item in version 0.1.01 has been remove as a metadata field in version 1.0.00
Role - the controlled vocabulary has been expanded (see roleAnnotation.xsd)
Added terms: High school educator, Elementary educator, Middle school educator, College educator, Student, Librarian, Scientist
Removed terms: Editor
Namespace - the namespace of the metadata record has been changed from http://www.annotation.dlese to http://www.dlese.org/annotation in case users actually go to the URL, they will land at an active URL
Context - the context idea (indicating the exact web page in the web-based resource being annotated) has been kept as is
Last updated: 2006-02-16
Maintained by: Katy Ginger (ginger@ucar.edu), DLESE Metadata Working Group
