Introduction

Formed following a meeting of key UK stakeholders, the Metadata for Education Group (MEG) serves as an open forum for debating the description and provision of educational resources at all educational levels across the United Kingdom.

Founded upon a set of fundamental principles enshrined in the MEG Concord, this group seeks to reach consensus on appropriate means by which to describe discrete learning objects in a manner suitable for implementation in a range of educational arenas. Having reached such consensus, the group will act to gather and disseminate best practice and guidance across the educational sector.

MEG intends to establish itself as an authority in the application of descriptive metadata to predominantly UK educational resources, and seeks to become the first point of call for policy questions surrounding this topic.

Signatories to the MEG Concord

Getting involved

To participate, or for more information, contact Pete Johnston at UKOLN.

Documents

MEG has produced a variety of documents describing our work.

Meetings

MEG holds meetings where implementors share experiences and seek to develop best practice.

Mailing List

MEG activities are progressed on our mailing list, hosted by JISCMail.
To join, follow these instructions.

UK LOM Core

Application Profile

• UK LOM Core

Controlled Vocabularies

• UK Educational Levels (UKEL)
• UK Educational Contexts (UKEC)

Registry

During 2003, JISC and BECTa funded some development work on a metadata schema registry for MEG.

A prototype is available at http://meg.ukoln.ac.uk/

Currently (summer 2004), this work is being further developed in the IEMSR project.