JISC metadata schema registry

This paper presents work carried out over the last year on the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded metadata schema registry. The registry is being developed as a shared service within the JISC Information Environment (JISC IE) to provide access to information on metadata vocabularies and application profiles used for resource description in the UK learning, teaching & research communities. The Schema Registry will act as the primary source for authoritative information about metadata schemas recommended by the DISC IE Standards Framework. The Registry is targeted at the spectrum of education communities, aiming to provide a service that handles schema based on both the Dublin Core (DC) and IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) formats. The project has as associated partners CETIS and Becta as representatives of user communities