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Learning object metadata
Learning Object Metadata is a data model, usually encoded in XML, used to describe a learning object and similar digital resources used to support learning. The purpose of learning object metadata is to support the reusability of learning objects, to aid discoverability, and to facilitate their interopeWhat is the LOM for?
Some of the main things that the LOM is designed to help you achieve are:
Creation of well structured descriptions of learning resources, which should help facilitate the discovery, location, evaluation and acquisition of learning resources by students, teachers or automated software processes.
Sharing of descriptions of learning resources between resource discovery systems, which should lead to a reduction in the cost of providing services based on high quality resource descriptions.
Tailoring of the resource descriptions to suit the specialised needs of a community, which may include choosing suitable controlled vocabularies for classification, reducing the number of elements that are described or adding new ones from other resource description schemas.
Creators and publishers may use the LOM along with other specifications to “tag” learning resources with a description that can be associated with the resource, providing information in a standard format similar to that found on the cover and fly-page of a text book. rability, usually in the context of online learning management systems (LMS).