Multibook: Metadata for the Web
Key: SSFS99-1
Author: Achim Steinacker, Cornelia Seeberg, Stephan Fischer, Ralf Steinmetz
Date: November 1999
Kind: In proceedings
Book title: 2nd International Conference on New Learning Technologies, Bern, Switzerland
Abstract: The Multibook project of the Darmstadt University of Technology builds a webbased adaptive hypermedia teaching and learning environment for multimedia and communication technology. Besides information gained from the interaction with the user, the system uses standardized content relations and meta-information to adaptively compile a selection from the set of available information units. In this paper we will compare the meta descriptions we have specified for the connections between information resources with the suggestion from other organizations currently developing meta data standards for the Web. We will show, that relations tailored to the needs needs of learners and instructors like the ones we are using in Multibook, can help to better identify the resource someone is looking for and can increase the benefit of working with the resources.
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