Features 

Educators do not need to be members of the Consortium to search for educational resources or 

use the services provided by GEM. 

Metadata based on Dublin Core 

Metadata based links to resources as opposed to objects 

No authoring tool mentioned 

Unsure of licensing 

Single rights management field in metadata 

RSS (unable to find information at time of writing) 

object versioning (unable to find information at time of writing) 

GEM has its own controlled vocabulary for subject classifications. 

Metadata produced by member collections using GEMCAT, a Java tool provided by GEM 

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