Metadata

The Learning Resource Exchange uses the IEEE LOM standard for expressing metadata about learning resources. EUN provides an Application Profile which is based on the LOM. An application profile is a description of how a standard (in our case the IEEE LOM) should be used for a particular community (in our case the school community in Europe).

Download the EUN Application profile 3.0:
http://insight.eun.org/intern/shared/data/insight/lre/AppProfilev3p0.pdf

As part of the application profile, a number of multilingual vocabularies may be used. The most extended one is the vocabulary to describe the subject of a learning resource. For this the multilingual LRE thesaurus is suggested as it will enhance interoperability.

The LRE Thesaurus was first created in early 2000 as an outcome of the European Schoolnet ETB project. It has been used also in the CELEBRATE project to index multilingual learning objects and is also continuously also used in European Schoolnet's services.

Multilingual controlled vocabularies are useful as they can help to automate part of the translation work for learning resources that have been indexed in one language. The LRE Thesaurus is particularly important as it is now available in 15 languages! One of the most recent languages in the LRE family is Friulan. The other languages are Arabic, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, and Greek. Take your time and see for yourself the value of these vocabularies!

The scope of the LRE thesaurus is:

• Content of multimedia educational materials
• Content of teaching, guidance, evaluation, and administration supporting materials

The LRE Thesaurus is in 3 different displays: 1. Alphabetical display Classical self-sufficient display of a thesaurus, carrying the whole information on all the thesaurus relationships. Download in English Download in French Download in German Download in Danish Download in Italian Download in Spanish Download in Swedish Download in Greek Download in Hungarian Download in Dutch Download in Finnish Download in Albanian Download in Hebrew.rtf Download in Hebrew.pdf 2. Rotated display The descriptors are displayed in alphabetical order as many times as meaningful words are present in a compound term.  Download in English Download in French Download in German Download in Danish Download in Italian Download in Spanish Download in Swedish Download in Greek Download in Hungarian Download in Dutch Download in Finnish Download in Albanian 3. Systematic display Systematic display allows a general view of descriptors classified in meaningful conceptual sub-groups, so-called Microthesauri (= MT).  Download in English Download in French Download in German Download in Danish Download in Italian Download in Spanish Download in Swedish Download in Greek Download in Hungarian Download in Hebrew.rtf Download in Hebrew.pdf Download in Finnish Download in Albanian Download in Arabic.rtf All the displays of a language version in .zip Download in English Download inFrench Download in German Download in Danish Download in Italian Download in Spanish Download in Swedish Download in Greek Download in Hungarian Download in Danish Download in Finnish Download in Albanian Download in Arabic LRE thesaurus includes 25 micro-thesauri: Individual development Learning / research School activities Leisure activities Teaching / training / evaluation / guidance Educational system Content of education: 8 sub-groups Facilities / equipment / materials : 3 sub-groups Communication / information / document Culture Political /social / interpersonal relations Health /safety / handicap Environment Society International organisations Countries and geopolitical areas Languages

© Copyright EUN Consortium 2007. The thesaurus may be freely distributed for non-commercial educational purposes provided the source is acknowledged. For copyright issues contact frans[dot]van[dot]assche[at]eun[dot]org