Open Educational Resources, metadata, and self-description

December 8, 2008

If we share learning materials, do we have a professional responsibility to describe them?
At the CETIS conference Open Educational Resources / Content session in the midst of the discussions about metadata someone, I think John Casey, made an offhand comment about embedded metadata. As valuable as his next statement was, it was the notion of [...]

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An ecology of repositories?

December 3, 2008

[this is a copy of my post on the Repository Research Team blog http://jiscrrt.wordpress.com/]
In issue 57 of Ariadne, Phil, Mahendra, and myself have an article introducing some of our work on ecological models of repository and service interaction. “A Bug’s Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions”
In our introduction [...]

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