Category Archives: metadata / digitial repositories

UKOER 2: Collections, technology, and community

By JohnR | September 6, 2011

What technology is being used to aggregate open educational resources? What role can the subject community play in resources discovery? 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]
In the UKOER 2 programme Strand C funded “Projects identifying, collecting and [...]

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UKOER 2: Dissemination protocols in use and Jorum representation

By JohnR | August 26, 2011

What technical protocols are projects using to share their resource? and how are they planning on representing their resources in Jorum? 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]
Dissemination protocols
The chosen dissemination protocols are usually already built in the platforms in use by projects; [...]

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UKOER 2: Content management platforms

By JohnR | August 26, 2011

What platforms are UKOER 2 projects using to host and manage their content? What types of content are they releasing? 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]
OER types:
Projects in UKOER 2 have released resources at various levels of granularity from individual images  and documents [...]

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Differences in managing learning materials?

By JohnR | August 10, 2011

Last week CETIS organised a workshop at the repository fringe 2011 #rfringe11 on the Advances in Open Systems for Learning Materials (#rfCETIS ). Phil’s collected blog posts and presentations-here.
This post is to briefly capture some of the discussion around the warm up  act - our attempt to help the workshop participants, think about some of the [...]

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OER Hackday: initial reflections

By JohnR | April 5, 2011

On Thursday and Friday CETIS and UKOLN ran OERHack

last time I counted we had a little over 250 tweets.
Once we take ‘OERHack’ and RT out of the picture we see:

250 tweets isn’t that many for 2 days and ~40 people but that’s cause everyone was busy

Beforehand the event we had some discussions on blogs.

Musings on [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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CETIS OER Gathering

By JohnR | June 8, 2010

We’re organising a developer event on harvesting, aggregating and collecting OERs. Creating an opportunity for developers to work on some of the issues around collecting and using OERs. We’re looking at technical issues around collecting OERs into your ’system’ and sharing content from your ’system’ with dynamic collections. More specifically we hope to:

learn more about [...]

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The use of OAI-PMH and OAI-ORE in the UKOER programme

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 [...]

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The use of Dublin Core metadata in the UKOER programme

By JohnR | March 17, 2010

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative “popularized the idea of “core metadata” for simple and generic resource descriptions” and its initial 15 descriptive elements became an international standard and a component of the Open Archives Initiatives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The Dublin Core community has subsequently developed in two directions – one developing application profiles to [...]

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