Category Archives: Metadata

UKOER 2: Licences and encoding

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 [...]

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UKOER 2: Content description

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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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The use of IEEE LOM in the UKOER programme

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 [...]

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