CanCore's Guidelines for the Access For All Digital Resource Description data elements are now available.

Guidelines 2.0 Documents (written by Dr. Norm Friesen, Sue Fisher, Anthony Roberts).  These guidelines are the product of three years of consultation with implementers across Canada and internationally.

These guidelines are synchronized with the IEEE LOM standard, and include best practice recommendations for all LOM elements: 

Frontmatter 2.0	(PDF, 375 KB)	April 27, 2004
Introduction 2.0	(PDF, 140 KB)	April 27, 2004
General 2.0	(PDF, 90 KB)	April 27, 2004
Lifecycle 2.0	(PDF, 80 KB)	April 27, 2004
Meta-metadata 2.0	(PDF, 80 KB)	April 27, 2004
Technical 2.0	(PDF, 80 KB)	April 27, 2004
Educational 2.0	(PDF, 90 KB)	April 27, 2004
Rights 2.0	(PDF, 50 KB)	April 27, 2004
Relation 2.0	(PDF, 70 KB)	April 27, 2004
Annotation 2.0	(PDF, 60 KB)	April 27, 2004
Classification 2.0	(PDF, 80 KB)	April 27, 2004
Appendix A 2.0	(PDF, 70 KB)	April 27, 2004
Appendix B 2.0	(PDF, 50 KB)	April 27, 2004

These guidelines are also available in three different dynamic, electronic formats:

1. A full-text searchable version, allowing users to locate particular terms and sections in the guidelines.   See the top of the screen at: http://www.cancore.ca/en/dynamic/
   
2. A dynamic version, allowing users to view only certain parts of the CanCore guidelines (e.g. technical or basic information) only for particular application profiles (e.g. NORMETIC or SCORM).   See the bottom half of the screen at: http://www.cancore.ca/en/dynamic/
   
3. A "help screen" version of the guidelines, provided specifically for use in software tools.   In this version, each metadata element is provided as a separate, referenceable Webpage, with the most basic part of the guidelines highlighted at the top of the page. http://www.cancore.ca/en/help

These Guidelines are also available in MSWord format (as a single 1.4 Mb Zip file). Note: Document formatting is not stable in this format.