eMAP: design and implementation of educational metadata application profiles

Educational metadata can significantly enhance the effective description, search and retrieval of online learning objects and educational resources. Thus a number of international efforts have been initiated during the past few years and have defined educational metadata standards for the common description of educational resources. This paper presents the architectural components and the fundamental functionalities of a software toolkit (eMAP), which aims to assist and facilitate the process of designing and implementing an educational metadata application profile by modifying and combining one or more educational metadata standards.