John’s JISC CETIS blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

IMS Question & Test Interoperability Specification http://www.imsglobal.org/question/ is a standard used to support the interoperability and exchange of digital assessment items (questions, answers, and data). Based on the technical conversations we’ve been having with projects, here’s a brief overview of the use of IMS QTI in the UKOER programme based on the data we have.
Eight [...]

Following on from part 1 which reviewed Jorum’s requirements for RSS-based deposit, this section synthesises the comments and feedback emerging in response to it.
Community views
In response to the requirements and position papers a number of feeds where submitted for testing and there has been some thoughtful reflection on the issues in the blogs and by [...]

Over the past few months CETIS and Jorum have been discussing approaches to bulk deposit to support the projects in the UKOER programme as they deposit or represent their OERs in Jorum. Based on feedback from projects gathered through our technical reviews of projects, we’ve investigated approaches which might work for the programme.
One option we [...]

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, [...]

There have been two reports relating to metadata released recently that I’ve been meaning to read and blog about: OCLC’s What We’ve Learned from the RLG Partners Metadata Creation Workflows Survey and DLF’s Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators. However, I’m not going to get a chance to do more than skim these [...]

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 [...]

What are the key changes going on in the world of digital libraries, repositories, and academic life? Over the summer I’ve been thinking a little on some of this - in part been prompted by my aforementioned change in job and in part because I’ve been on holiday and it’s afforded a few moments of [...]