Creating an EducationalFramework class

[stuartasutton]

As Phil notes in his Cetis blog post at http://blogs.pjjk.net/phil/explaining-the-lrmi-alignment-object/ on use of lrmi:AlignmentObject, there is no such thing defined as an lrmi:EducationalFramework class. I think we should define such a class.

A while ago, I posted to the LRMI Forum (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lrmi/qTVws-9ngOA/x8LkDn13Pw0J) regarding keeping the distinction straight between "educational framework" as a broad class of knowledge organization systems (KOS) related to education and training and the narrower subclass of "competency framework"--"a kind of genre expressing learning goals/outcomes". Defining an lrmi:EducationFramework class would be the first step in being able to categorize its various sub-forms in machine addessable ways. I'm sure others can articulate other subclasses of a yet-undefined lrmi:EducationalFramework class beyond lrmi:CompetencyFramework--perhaps lrmi:TextComplexity. Each subclass of an lrmi:EducationalFramework class have existing alternative frameworks and being able to machine group them would be useful.

And, the class/subclass distinctions makes it possible to have less confusing conversations when distinct categories get conflated in unproductive ways.