A view is a collection of fields. A field corresponds to one piece of data that you enter as part of a metadata object. For example, title, description, author, date created, and rights are all possible fields. Different views enable users to see and modify different fields when looking at metadata.
iLearn Learning Environment includes six base metadata views that implement widely used metadata standards:
- Dublin Core (http://dublincore.org/documents/) - This view categorizes metadata using 15 different elements: contributor, coverage, creator, date, description, format, identifier, language, publisher, relation, rights, source, subject, title, and type.
- GEM - This view categorizes metadata using 9 different elements: general, life cycle, meta-metadata, technical, educational, rights, relation, annotation, and classification.
- IEEE LOM - This view categorizes metadata using the 15 Dublin Core elements, plus 7 additional elements: audience, cataloging, duration, essential resources, pedagogy, quality, and standard.
- Normetic (http://www.normetic.org/ (French) or http://www.normetic.org/-English-.html (English)) - This view is a French version you can use to categorize metadata based on the IEEE LOM view.
- Object Publishing - This view categorizes metadata based on a simplified Dublin Core view using 3 different elements: title, description, and keywords.
- Object Publishing IEEE LOM - This view categorizes metadata based on a simplified IEEE LOM view using 3 different elements: title, description, and keywords.
Default system views refer to any of the views that ship with iLearn Learning Environment by default.
iLearn Learning Environment also includes two default system views that inherit from the IEEE LOM base view: