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Overview: News-Opps version May 2002
This page describes characteristics of a particular DLESE metadata framework and version number. Topics include:
- Required metadata
- XML information (root element of the metadata record, framework categories, vocabulary schemas)
- Controlled vocabulary information
- Sample records
- Tool support for required metadata
- Features and constraints
Required metadata
- Type - of news or opportunity (e.g. conference, grant, etc.)
- Title - name of the news or opportunity
- URL - the url to an online information about the announcement
- Description - a narrative describing the content, purpose or goal of the announcement
- Topics- general topic areas that the announcement is about or covers
- Event dates - start and stop dates of the announcement
- Posting dates - start and stop dates for posting the announcement
- Target audience - the appropriate educational group for the announcement
- Grade range - the appropriate grade range for the announcement
- Contact person - contact information for the author or publisher of the announcement
- Location - location of the announcement
- Sponsoring or funding information - who supports the announcement
XML information
- XML schema-based with no data typing. There is one schema plus some metatag HTML documents, metatags example and metatags generic.
- Posting is the root element
Vocabularies
- There are some controlled vocabularies but there is no controlled vocabulary support.
Sample records
There are no sample records available for this framework.
Tool support to create required metadata
- Announcements can be cataloged directly on the DLESE web site. Please see the News and Opportunities banner button above and choose post an item.
Features and constraints
- Has event start and stop dates
- Has post and archive dates
- No data typing means arbitrary values may become part of the metadata records
- HTML tags are currently intermingled with metadata content