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Record W2135913086 · doi:10.1504/ijceell.2006.008917

Towards flexible learning object metadata

2006· article· en· W2135913086 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicOpen Education and E-Learning
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMetadataComputer scienceLearning objectObject (grammar)Process (computing)Metadata repositorySemantic WebWorld Wide WebInformation retrievalArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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This paper outlines the research we are doing in acquiring, describing and using learning object metadata. Instead of the IEEE LOM and other standardised metadata schemes, we argue for a more flexible approach to both defining and associating metadata with learning objects. This approach, which we call the ecological approach, sees metadata as the process of reasoning over observed interactions of users with a learning object for a particular purpose. Central to this approach is the notion that Semantic Web enabled computational agents will both provide and consume pieces of actual usage data that have been collected about a learning object in determining the usefulness of this learning object for some new purpose. This is then an evolutionary approach to metadata creation as compared to move traditional prescriptive 'one size fits all' approaches.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.625
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.251 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it