Monthly Archives: November 2009

Technical challenges for managing Open Educational Resources

By JohnR | November 13, 2009

At the CETIS conference this year, Lorna organised a session offering Roundtable about technical issues facing projects engaging with Open Educational Resources - as most of the attendees were drawn from the UKOER programme. Although there will doubtless be more refined versions of this list I’ve created a first pass of the issues. The full [...]

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DepoST : what would a repository deposit tool look like for learning materials?

By JohnR | November 6, 2009

The morning sessions a the recent JISCRI deposit tools show and tell meeting in London (DepoST) offered a whirlwind of elevator pitches for the many existing repository deposit tools. Details of the tools from the pitches have been neatly captured by David Flanders on the JISCinvolve blog.

http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/03/part-1-of-2-report-on-depost-deposit-tool-show-tell-meeting-2009-12-10/
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/03/part-2-of-2-evaluation-of-the-deposit-tool-show-and-tell-features-and-flows-of-deposit/

In the midst of the afternoon sessions there where [...]

Posted in #dev8d, CRIG, DepoST, cetis-systems, jiscri, metadata / digitial repositories, oer, repositories, rss, ukoer | 2 Comments

Notes from the web: Making Standards that Work and a Sordid History of Learning Object Repositories

By JohnR | November 5, 2009

A few quick items of interest form the web this week. Two offer a perspective of the process of making standards (looking at OAI-PMH); another is an interview with Brian Lamb reviewing the history of Learning Object Repositories.
Talking to DC [Washington] (Adam Bosworth, Adam Bosworth’s Weblog)
In a post based on his experiences with standards development, [...]

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