Metadata for events

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Metadata for events
Pru Mitchell, Senior Information Officer
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education.au is Australias leadingICT agency
providing innovativeonline resources for
educators.
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edna.edu.au
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• Supporting Educators
• Teaching and Learning Resources
• Professional Communities
• ICT Research and Innovation
• Shared e-learning Infrastructure

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www.edna.edu.au/events
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event search
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event list
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RSS
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iCalendar
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Calendar types
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Event types

• Academic events semester and term dates
• Conferences and professional events
  lectures, meetings, seminars, workshops
• Commemorations international, national
  and state days/weeks religious
  observances typically events recurring on
  an annual basis
• Opportunities, awards, competitions
  scholarships and grant applications
• Excludes academic courses

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ev-type registry
www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id1132
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Metadata
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edna standard 1.1

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DCMI event
A non-persistent, time-based occurrence
Metadata for an event provides descriptive
information that is the basis for discovery of
the purpose, location, duration, and responsible
agents associated with an event. Examples
include an exhibition, webcast, conference,
workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial,
wedding, tea party, conflagration
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Event date
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Event organizer
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Event location
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Event mode
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Event accreditation
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Events issues

• interoperability
• automated metadata
• archiving

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Calendar formats
http//api.edna.edu.au/calendar.help
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http//www.education.gov.au/goved/go/pid/684
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http//www.tale.edu.au/tale/
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http//carrickinstitute.edu.au/
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Future development

• Vocabularies
• Relationships
• agents
• locations
• resources

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