The LOM application profile for agricultural learning resources of the CGIAR

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 13-23

  Zschocke, Thomas ^a   Beniest, Jan ^b   Paisley, Courtney ^b   Najjar, Jehad ^c   Duval, Erik ^c  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Application profile; Learning object metadata; Learning technology standardisation; LOM

Indexed keywords

METADATA; SEMANTICS;

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; ARIADNE; LEARNING OBJECT METADATA; LEARNING OBJECT METADATA STANDARDS; LEARNING RESOURCE; LEARNING TECHNOLOGY; NAMESPACES; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 66949132543     PISSN: 17442621     EISSN: 1744263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2009.026250     Document Type: Article

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