Prompted by a comment from Andy Powell that
It would be interesting to think about how much of required resource description for UKOER can be carried in the RDFa vocabularies currently understood by Google. Probably quite a lot.
I had a look at Googles webmaster advice on Marking up products for rich snippets.
My [...]
One of the things that I noticed when I was looking for sources of UKOERs was that when I got to a resource there was often no indication on it that it was open: no UKOER tag, no CC-license information or logo. There may have been some indication of this somewhere on the way, e.g. [...]
I have been compiling a directory of how people can get at the resources released by the UKOER pilot phase projects: that is the websites for human users and the “interoperability end points” for machines–ie the RSS and ATOM feed URLs, SRU targets, OAI-PMH base URLs and API documentation. This wasn’t nearly as easy as [...]
Our friends at the University of Southampton, Hugh Davis, David Millard and Thanassis Tiropanis (with whom we worked on the SemTech project and who organised a subsequent workshop) are guest editing a Special Section of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technology on Semantic Technologies for Learning and Teaching Support in Higher Education.
Call for papers (pdf) [...]
JISC has provided CETIS with funding to commission a series of OER Technical Mini Projects to explore specific technical issues that have been identified by the community during CETIS events such as #cetisrow and #cetiswmd and which have arisen from the JISC / HEA OER Programmes.
Mini project grants will be awarded as a fixed [...]
