By JohnR | August 26, 2011
What licence have UKOER 2 projects used and how have they associated it with their content? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
Although, a project’s choice of licence is not a particular concern of a technical synthesis, how the licence is [...]
By JohnR | August 26, 2011
What standards did projects intend to use to describe and package their OERs? - what other standards are in use? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
Descriptive choices
Dublin Core
“The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative “popularized the idea of “core [...]
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 [...]
“The Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) integrates a set of related technical standards, specifications, and guidelines designed to meet SCORM’s high-level requirements—accessible, interoperable, durable, and reusable content and systems. SCORM content can be delivered to your learners via any SCORM-compliant Learning Management System (LMS) using the same version of SCORM.” (http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/default.aspx )
In the context [...]
Also posted in Standards, oer, ukoer |
By JohnR | March 30, 2010
OAI-PMH
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH ; http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html ) “provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting.” The protocol is widely used by repository software to make metadata about the resources they store available. In its use the repository acts as a data provider which is then able to be harvested [...]
By JohnR | March 11, 2010
“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 [...]
Also posted in IEEE LOM, Metadata, ukoer |
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 [...]
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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, [...]
By JohnR | September 2, 2009
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, [...]
By JohnR | August 31, 2009
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 [...]
