What would it mean to be CanCore compliant?
CanCore, like the LOM, has no simple set of criteria that can be used to determine compliance. (Currently, the many LOM implementers seem to understand metadata compliance only in terms of the ability of an XML-encoded record to be successfully parsed or validated against an approved schema document. Such an understanding of compliance does not address the standardization of descriptive content of the metadata record.) The goal of CanCore is to optimize interoperability between projects using educational metadata, and to facilitate the effective creation of accurate metadata. Consequently for CanCore, the term “compliant” might be better replaced with the word “interoperable”, or with the phrase “following best practice.
