Approval of Minutes of previous meeting They were approved 7. Approval of agenda Agenda for this meeting was approved. Old business Tyde Richards commented on the relation between metadata and the CMI Course Interchange format as discussed in a recent ADL meeting. The current recommendation is that discovery-oriented metadata such as the LOM record not be embedded in the Course Interchange Format. It should only include operational metadata needed by a learning management system to run the course.
Some data elements occur in both places, such as the title and description data element.
Tyde Richards commented that the current ADL spec represents the common denominator between a couple of different companies and is only a first step. Jack commented on the ADL suggestion that an API approach replace the http protocol currently advocated in the CMI Web specification. Some feel that the API is a better solution because it can be used with any protocol and is easier for content authors. The other approach is to retain the HTTP protocol. Another difference is that the ADL is advocating a smaller core.