Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM): metadata for networked information discovery and retrieval

Enhanced access to educational materials on the Internet for the nation's teachers and students is one of President Clinton's second-term goals. In pursuit of this goal, the National Library of Education 2 2 http://www.ed.gov/NLE/index.html (NLE) identified lesson plans and teacher guides...

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Published in:Computer networks (Amsterdam, Netherlands : 1999) Netherlands : 1999), 1998-04, Vol.30 (1), p.691-693
Main Author: Sutton, Stuart A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Computer science
control theory
systems
Curriculum materials
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Education policy
Educational materials
Educational objects
Educational services
Educational technology
Exact sciences and technology
Gateway to Educational Materials
Information retrieval
Information systems. Data bases
Internet
Library and information science
Memory organisation. Data processing
Metadata
Software
Studies
Teachers
World Wide Web
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Summary:Enhanced access to educational materials on the Internet for the nation's teachers and students is one of President Clinton's second-term goals. In pursuit of this goal, the National Library of Education 2 2 http://www.ed.gov/NLE/index.html (NLE) identified lesson plans and teacher guides as a critical area in which library and information science expertise should be applied in order to improve the organization and accessibility of large collections of educational materials that are already available on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. The U.S. Department of Education 3 3 http://www.ed.gov and the NLE charged the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology 4 4 http://ericir.syr.edu/ at Syracuse University with the task of spearheading a project to develop an operational framework to provide the nation's teachers with “one-stop/any-stop” access to this vast pool of educational materials. The goal of the Gateway to Educational Materials 5 5 http://gem.syr.edu project (GEM) is to achieve this goal through development and deployment of a metadata element set and accompanying procedures for its use.
ISSN:0169-7552
1389-1286
1872-7069
DOI:10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00086-5