GEM Mission

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GEM Mission

• To provide an easy one-stop, any-stop access to
  educational materials on the Internet.

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Goals of the GEM Profile

• Capable of describing all Internet educational
  materials
• Comply with evolving standards
• GILS, Z39.50, PICS, Dublin Core
• Simple to apply

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GEM Profile

• GEM Core Element Set
• GEM Controlled Vocabularies
• Subject, Audience, Resource Types, Pedagogy,
  Education Level, Format
• Metadata Representation
• GEM Union Catalog
• Syntax, Procedures, Deployment

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GEM Project

• Stakeholders
• Department of Education/ERIC IT
• Initial Stakeholder Working Group
• Consortium
• Governance Structure
• Evolving in Consultation with the Emerging
  Consortium
• Consortium
• Expanding to include those interested in
  Participating and Furthering the GEM Profile

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Mandatory GEM Core Elements

• Cataloging Agency
• Date
• Format
• Grade
• Identifier
• (URL)

• Publisher
• (Online Provider)
• Resource Type
• Subject
• Title

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GEM Core Elements

• Audience
• Coverage
• Creator
• Description
• Duration
• Essential Resources
• Language

• Other Contributor
• Pedagogy
• Quality Indicators
• Relation
• Rights Management
• Source
• Standards

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GEM FIBRE

• Expansion of Subject Vocabulary
• Accommodation of Alternate Vocabularies
• ERIC
• NICEM
• Expansion of Resource Vocabulary
• Accommodate Experimental Terms
• Expansion of Audience Vocabulary
• Accommodate Experimental Terms

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GEM FIBRE Clarifications

• Distinction between Format and Resource Type
• Relationship of an Audience Type to a Given
  Resource
• Relationship of GEM to PICS, GILS, Z39.50

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GEM FIBRE Participation

• Federal Government is Part of GEM and GEM
  Consortium
• Listserv Participation
• Announcement, Working Group
• Dept. of Ed acting as FIBRE Liaison to GEM
  Working Group
• Training
• Self Instruction and Online assistance
• Off Site Training
• On Site Training and Implementation

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Teacher Informed

• Content analyses
• Interviews
• Online questionnaires