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Toward a Canonical Method to Solve Patterns of Ontology Modelling Issues 17 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________etc.), overall, they applied to different domains. However, in this case a promising resource was identified. It consisted of an RDF binding for the Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard produced within the Learning Technology Standard Committee of the IEEE (IEEE 2002). The LOM standard is a conceptual model to describe a metadata instance of a learning object, which in turn the standard defines as any entity (digital or non-digital) that may be used for learning, education or training. Our ReSIST courses seemed to fit well this definition. The LOM standard does not impose any technical implementation of its conceptual scheme (binding). It only defines the metadata elements that describe a learning object with the idea of enabling semantic interoperability for the different applications that may decide to support it. Figure 6 provides a schematic view of the more than 70 metadata attributes that integrate LOM. Further information about each element can be found in (IEEE 2000).Figure 6 – A schematic representation of the LOM element hierarchy4 A quick look at the history of the RDF binding of the LOM standard shows that the implementation was initially developed by the Knowledge Management Research Group of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden5 (Nilsson et al., 2003), leading to its current state where it is being used by a joint taskforce between the IEEE4 5http://www.77cn.com.cn/wiki/Learning_object_metadata/ http://kmr.nada.kth.se/el/ims/metadata.html/