What is the difference between CanCore and IMS, and what might be the advantages of using one or the other?
CanCore is an instantiation of the LOM standard. As such, it occupies the middle ground between this standard and the work needed to create an interoperable body of metadata records. CanCore is not intended to compete with or be used in place of the LOM. As an indication of these facts, the IMS consortium has included two CanCore records on its Website as exemplary instances of the use of its own metadata specification (http://www.imsproject.org/metadata/mdv1p2p2/samples/cancore/cancore_ex1.xml). Any implementation of the LOM will require the interpretation of many of its aspects (definitions of element semantics being among the most evident). CanCore is an example of an interpretation and application of the LOM that can be used for the purposes of implementing this e-learning standard in a project. Another example of such an interpretation are the CIMI guidelines written for the Dublin Core metadata specification (http://www.cimi.org/public_docs/meta_bestprac_v1_1_210400.pdf). As a pa
