John’s JISC CETIS blog

“Learning Object Metadata (LOM) is a data model, usually encoded in XML, used to describe a learning object and similar digital resources used to support learning. The purpose of learning object metadata is to support the reusability of learning objects, to aid discoverability, and to facilitate their interoperability, usually in the context of online learning [...]

IMS Content Packaging “describes data structures that can be used to exchange data between systems that wish to import, export, aggregate, and disaggregate packages of content.” http://www.imsglobal.org/content/packaging/ .
There are a number of projects in the programme which have identified themselves as using IMS Content Packaging, they are:

Unicycle

http://unicycle-leedsmet.ning.com/

Open Exeter

http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/oer/

OpenStaffs

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/about_us/projects/openstaffs/index.jsp

OLE Dutch History

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dutch/OER/

FETLAR

http://www.fetlar.bham.ac.uk/

Open Educational Resources Pilot

http://www.engsc.ac.uk/an/oer-project/oer-project.asp

CORE-materials

http://core.materials.ac.uk/

OOER

http://www.medev.ac.uk/oer/

Simulation-OER

http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/simshare/index.html

UK Centre [...]

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, [...]

The first two parts of this foray into metadata requirements for Open Educational Resources examined: 1) how the required information for the UKOER programme compared with the requirements for the Jorum deposit tool and the DiscoverEd aggegator 2) how the UKOER requirements compared to the information projects thought would be necessary for particular activities (find, [...]

In Comparing metadata requirements (part 1) I examined the required and suggested metadata for Open Educational Resources in the UKOER programme, for the Jorum deposit tool, and the DiscoverEd aggregator. In this second part of the comparison I’m going to try to capture some of our initial discussions fom the UKOER programme session about metadata [...]

I’ve been following with interest the tweets and blog posts from the SPARC Digital Repositories meeting (http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08/). Online casino bonuses; Though I haven’t given them the attention the deserve yet, I was struck by a presentation that didn’t get given…
On his blog and slideshare Les Carr posted a presentation that he didn’t get round to [...]

Last week Savas Parastatidis blogged about two repository-related outputs  from Microsoft Research that have just reached beta - one of which, OfficeSWORD, is open source and the other, their research-output repository, is free for non-commercial use.
Please note the following is not based on using these applications, but on what they describe themselves as doing [...]