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.                  IRC - Internet Reality Check
               http://www.tomw.net.au/irc/irc46.html
                 5:00 pm Thursday, 27 June 2002
                   Kurrajong Hotel Bar, Canberra

Topic: DATA ABOUT DATA ABOUT EDUCATION.
Special Guest: JENNY MILLEA, Information Manager, EdNA Online.

EdNA Online is an national education and training project
collaboratively funded by the state, territory and Commonwealth
education ministries:

"EdNA Online is a service that aims to support and promote the
benefits of the Internet for learning, education and training in
Australia. It is organised around Australian curriculum, its tools are
free to Australian educators, and it is funded by the bodies
responsible for education provision in Australia - all Australian
governments. As an information service, EdNA Online provides two key
functions: a directory about education and training in Australia [and]
a database of web-based resources useful for teaching and
learning..."	From: About EdNA Online, Education Network, 2001

EdNA Online has just conducted workshops about metadata havesting in
Adelaide, Hobart, Perth and Brisbane and have scheduled a metadata
workshop for Canberra on Wednesday 31 July.

"The purpose of the EdNA Metadata Standard is to support
interoperability across all sectors of education and training in
Australia in the area of online resource discovery and management.
Adoption of the standard will assist people across education and
training engaged in the production and use of well-described digital
content. It will also support the technical requirements for
well-structured coding of this content to exchange and serve up data
on request. The principal application of the standard at present is to
facilitate the aggregation of metadata about educational resources,
from all states and territories, and all sectors of education and
training, for EdNA Online." From: EdNA Metadata Homepage, 25 October
2001

Jenny Millea is currently Information Manager at EdNA Online. Prior to
EdNA Online, Jenny worked in web development with major corporate and
Commonwealth government clients and taught multimedia technology at
QUT. She is in Canberra to talk about metadata, the semantic web and
resource discovery with various organisations.

IRCs are free (but you have to buy your own drinks and one for the
special guest) and open to anyone interested: just turn up. Internet
Reality Check (not to be confused with Internet Relay Chat) is
designed so that members of the 'net community can meet and exchange
the small amount of very important information which is not suitable
for digital transmission. ;-)

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Tom Worthington FACS tom.worthington@tomw.net.au 
Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd ABN: 17 088 714 309
http://www.tomw.net.au PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617
Visiting Fellow, Computer Science, Australian National University
Publications Director & Past President, Australian Computer Society
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