This document’s intent is to present a pro­pos­al for:

1. The use of the cur­rent SIF_MetaData com­mon ele­ment as defined in the SIF 2.3 spec­i­fi­ca­tion to hold Impact Lev­el infor­ma­tion as need­ed for the object it is defined with.
2. The exten­sion of the SIF_MetaData com­mon ele­ment for the next SIF release to include an ele­ment defined specif­i­cal­ly for Impact Lev­el information.

The SIF_MetaData Common Element

The SIF_MetaData com­mon ele­ment is a mem­ber of every SIF object. It is a place where infor­ma­tion that describes the object may be stored, includ­ing its author, life­time, or key­words that relate to learn­ing con­tent. The over­all struc­ture of the com­mon ele­ment is as follows:

The TimeEle­ments ele­ment is typ­i­cal­ly used when the com­mon ele­ment is used to describe the time peri­od attached to the object.

The Life­Cy­cle ele­ment is typ­i­cal­ly used to describe the his­to­ry of an object.

The Edu­ca­tion­Fil­ter ele­ment is typ­i­cal­ly used to "pro­vide the abil­i­ty to tag objects with meta­da­ta that allows for cat­e­go­riza­tion, sort­ing, and fil­ter­ing, to empow­er teach­ing and learn­ing SIF usage"

The Right­sUsage ele­ment is typ­i­cal­ly used for a num­ber of rea­sons, from pro­vid­ing copy­right infor­ma­tion, costs, fees for use and one called “TermsO­fUse”

Proposal 1 – TermsOfUse

In the spec­i­fi­ca­tion, although the Right­sE­le­ment is defined as:

“A com­mon meta­da­ta ele­ment designed to car­ry any intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty or copy­right infor­ma­tion, based on the IEEE LOM Rights element”

…the Termso­fUse has no spe­cif­ic def­i­n­i­tion. Giv­en this, and giv­en that its val­ue is only a string (it is not val­i­dat­ed by the ZIS), we could use this to hold our Impact Lev­el information.

Proposal 2- Add a New Element

This new ele­ment would be at the same lev­el as Right­sE­le­ment and would con­tain infor­ma­tion to be defined by the UK Infra­struc­ture group. This would need to go through the nor­mal process for object changes, etc.