Promoting the introduction of lifelong learning related concepts in the description of information resources using metadata technology

The rise of the Internet has created an urgent need to define widely agreed-upon methods and vocabularies for describing its contents in a consistent and orderly manner. This necessity can be satisfied by means of the use of metadata schemas. In achieving this aim in relation to the educational, vocational and training sector, several initiatives have emerged at an international level, but there is a need for integrating core skills and competency issues, which are very important in relation to the new paradigm of lifelong learning (LLL), and especially regarding informal education and training in metadata solutions that have arisen in the framework of those initiatives.