[XML4Lib] XML for language instructional materials

[Elaine Westbrooks]

Dear Karen:

I would suggest reviewing the metadata set especially designed by the 
Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) http://www.language-archives.org/

Best,
Elaine

Head of Metadata Services
Cornell University Libraries
elw25 at cornell.edu
607.255.3973

At 12:00 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote:
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>Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:47:07 -0500
>From: "Karen Harker" <Karen.Harker at UTSouthwestern.edu>
>Subject: Re: [XML4Lib] XML for language instructional materials?
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>Well, there's the Learning Objects Metadata ( 
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_object_metadata ) (LOM).  This 
>was created by IEEE and has been integrated into learning management 
>systems (LMS).
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>Karen R. Harker, MLS, MPH
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> >>> On 3/21/08 at 2:40 PM, in message 
> <6B40843B-6FEE-44D2-9AF0-CD22782A5E52 at uchicago.edu>, Tod Olson 
> <tod at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>XML4LIB,
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>Has anyone out there marked up language instruction materials with
>XML? Have any advice for a schema (DTD, whatever) that works well?
>
>The project in question will be encoding a set of language lessons for
>Mayan languages, and will deal with the usual sorts of language
>instructions things (individual lessons, examples sentences and
>conversations) plus links off to a language dictionary and sound
>samples, and switch between orthographies (standard and learner). One
>idea that has been floated is to do a TEI or TEI-Lite extension.
>
>If this resembles a project you are familiar with, I'd love to hear
>what was used for the text encoding, how well it worked, caveats, etc.
>
>
>Tod Olson <tod at uchicago.edu>
>Systems Librarian
>University of Chicago Library
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