DOS Common Metadata Elements at the Course Level
Common Name |
Cardinality |
Datatype |
Definition |
Common Usage |
Example |
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Identifier |
1 and only 1 |
URI |
A globally unique, persistent expression associated with the Course. |
Each repository will assign an identifier to courses within its collections. A course represents an offering of a MIT Subject. These offerings are principally characterized by the semester and year in which they were taught. Courses in different repositories that represent the same offering are not considered identical and should not share identifiers, however, they should reference each other via the identifiers assigned by each repository. Both DSpace and OCW use URIs as course identifiers, Stellar should adopt a similar practice. |
DSpace: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52321 ; OCW:http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Chemistry/5-37Spring-2009 |
Title |
1 and only 1 |
String |
The name given to the Course. |
[Should course titles be comprised of numbers, names, and semesters or names only.] |
Protein Folding Problem |
Description |
1 and only 1 |
String |
A textual description of the content of the Course. |
[Sources?] |
Classical mechanics in a computational framework, Lagrangian formulation, action, variational principles, and Hamilton's principle. Conserved quantities, Hamiltonian formulation, surfaces of section, chaos, and Liouville's theorem. Poincare integral invariants, Poincare-Birkhoff and KAM theorems. Invariant curves and cantori. Nonlinear resonances, resonance overlap and transition to chaos. Symplectic integration. Adiabatic invariants. Applications to simple physical systems and solar system dynamics. Extensive use of computation to capture methods, for simulation, and for symbolic analysis. Programming experience required. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments. |
Contributor |
1 or more |
Agent |
The name of a person or organization that has contributed to the preparation of the Course. |
[Shared usage] MIT OpenCourseWare is in the process of developing. |
King, Jonathan |
Publication Date |
1 and only 1 |
DateTime |
The date a course was made available to the audience of a course-content system. |
A publication date will be assigned by each system. This date corresponds to the day when access to the course content is first allowed by the system. Stellar's publication date is the course creation date. The DSpace publication date is the date the course is deposited in the repository. Courses deposited in DSpace are immediately available to the public. OCW records the date they first run the course through the publication engine. Values for this element should conform to the ISO 8601 date and time format standard. |
2008-05-28 |
Semester |
1 and only 1 |
String |
The semester in which the Course was taught. |
This element is common but Stellar is source. This may come from Registrar. The values for this element should conform to the following format: “[semester] [year]”. Years should include all four digits. The allowable values for semester are: “Fall”, “Spring”, “IAP”, “Summer”. |
Fall 2007 |
Master Course Number |
1 and only 1 |
Controlled Vocabulary |
The primary number assigned to the Course according to the MIT Course Numbering System. |
[Format] |
7.88J |
Department |
0 or 1 |
Controlled Vocabulary |
The department from which the course is offered. |
Use of this field is optional. The same controlled vocabulary of department names should be adopted by each system. Source is Stellar |
Physics |
Current Status |
1 and only 1 |
Controlled Vocabulary |
This represents where the course currently resides and the state |
We need to come up with the vocabulary. When the course in Stellar - Created, Being Taught OCW - Unpublished, Staging, Published Library - archived |
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Cross-Listed Course Number |
0 or more |
Controlled Vocabulary |
Additional number's assigned to the Course according to the MIT Course Numbering System. |
Stellar is the source of this Info. |
10.543J |
Language |
1 or more |
ISO 639-1 |
The languages in which the Course is taught. |
Values for this element should conform to the ISO 639-1 standard for two letter encoding of languages. Two letter language codes may be supplemented by an additional two letter code for the country of origin. |
en-US |
Aggregation Level |
1 and only 1 |
Controlled Vocabulary |
The granularity of the Course in the OCW content model. |
Use the IEEE LOM defined controlled vocabulary for this element. In that vocabulary there are four allowable values “4”, “3”, “2”, and “1”, where 4 = Course, 3 = Section, 2 = Resource, 1 = Object. The value of this element for Courses will always be “4”. |
4 |
Location |
1 and only 1 |
URL |
The url at which the Course may be found. |
This element should always start with “http://” and contain the full address. |
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Technical Requirements |
0 or 1 |
String |
A textual description of software and hardware requirements for consuming resources included in the Course. |
This element is optional. If applicable, one field should aggregate all requirements that may apply to the various resources in the Course. The requirement declarations should conform to the vocabulary of such statements. |
Scheme software is required to run the .scm files found on this course site. File decompression software, such as Winzip® or StuffIt®, is required to open .gz and .zip files found on this course site. The .exe files found on this course site are executabl |
Educational Context |
1 or more |
Controlled Vocabulary |
The MIT level of study at which the Course is taught. |
This element is governed by a controlled vocabulary. MIT courses are taught at either the “Undergraduate” or “Graduate” levels, or both. If the Course is taught at both levels, this element should be repeated for each value. |
Undergraduate |
Rights |
1 or more |
String |
The statement of copyright associated with the Course. |
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How can we define and communicate rights in common level? This is more a Policy level question in MIT level. |
License |
1 or more |
CC License (URI) |
The URI for the Creative Commons license associated with the Course. |
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Relation Kind |
If relation exists, For each Relation 1 and only 1 |
Controlled Vocabulary |
A characterization of the kind of relationship identified by the Relation element. |
This element should accompany every Relation element. Values should conform to the Dublin Core relation element refinements: http://purl.org/dc/terms/conformsTo, http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasFormat, http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasPart, http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion, http://purl.org/dc/terms/isFormatOf, http://purl.org/dc/terms/isPartOf, http://purl.org/dc/terms/isReferencedBy, http://purl.org/dc/terms/isReplacedBy, http://purl.org/dc/terms/isRequiredBy, http://purl.org/dc/terms/isVersionOf, http://purl.org/dc/terms/references, http://purl.org/dc/terms/replaces, http://purl.org/dc/terms/requires, . This element should always be used in conjunction with a lom:lom/relation/kind/source element whose value is “http://purl.org/dc/terms/”. |
http://purl.org/dc/terms/replaces (for older version of the Course) |
Relation |
0 and more |
URI |
The URI for the related Course. |
The primary use of this element is to relate different versions of the same course. Other reasons to relate courses may identify themselves. Each assigned Relation should be paired with a Relation Kind element that appropriately characterizes the relationship. The use of absolute, dereferenceable URIs are recommended for this element. These URIs should be identical to the Identifier element of the pertinent Course. This element should always be used in conjunction with a lom:lom/relation/resource/identifier/catalog element. The value of that element should always be “URI”. |
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/7-88JProtein-Folding-ProblemFall2003 |
Classification |
1 or more |
Controlled Vocabulary |
The topic of the Course as taken from a classification scheme. |
A shared taxonomy needs to be identified or developed for this element. |
? |
Keywords |
0 or more |
String |
Words and phrases that describe the intellectual content of the Course. |
This element is optional. Keywords are unrestricted by any taxonomy. |
chemical bonding |