Monthly Archives: January 2011

workflow and deposit tools for learning materials

By JohnR | January 25, 2011

A while back I reported on a workshop discussion about developing SWORD deposit tool for e-learning - a discussion that was useful but veered towards developing much more than a deposit tool. At the time our short list of key features was:

richer user profiles both for depositors and users
resources to include a link to the [...]

Posted in Metadata, metadata / digitial repositories, oer, tools, ukoer | 2 Comments

considering OAI-PMH

By JohnR | January 21, 2011

OAI-PMH is a odd thing:

a protocol almost universally implemented in repositories and consequently (usually) publishing metadata about repository contents to the world
a protocol frequently reviled by anyone trying to aggregate feeds from different repositories and build discovery tools and services on top of that aggregate.

I’m not going to repeat OAI-PMH’s problems in detail (PERX, the experience of the NSDL [...]

Posted in Metadata, OAI-PMH, Standards, atom, cetis-standards, metadata / digitial repositories, oer, rss, tools, ukoer | 4 Comments

Don’t forget the public domain

By JohnR | January 20, 2011

Context
As OERTIG and the discussion about the oer hackday kicks off on the oer-discuss list, here’s a quick note about one small thing that might be of interest to anyone developing/hacking oer discovery tools - it’s probably too minor to get into at the hackday but - you should look at how the tool handles [...]

Posted in Metadata, oer, ukoer | 1 Comment