I went to a meeting for stakeholders interested in the eTernity (European textbook reusability networking and interoperability) initiative. The hope is that eTernity will be a project of the CEN Workshop on Learning Technologies with the objective of gathering requirements and proposing a framework to provide European input to ongoing work by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC36, [...]
No, there’s no ‘Interaction’ missing in that title, this is about building a computer, or at least a small part of one, out of humans. The occasion was a birthday party that the department I work in, Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, held to commemorate the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth. It was also [...]
We have recently changed how we present our publications to the world. Where once we put a file on the web somewhere, anywhere, and entered the details into a home-spun publication database, now we use WordPress. We’re quite pleased with how that has worked out, so we’re sharing the information that might help others use [...]
Last week I was at the first face to face meeting of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative technical working group, here are my reflections on it. In short, what I said in previous post was about right, and the discussion went the way I hoped. One addition, though, that I didn’t cover in that post, [...]
It has become very clear to me over the last week or so that I haven’t done enough to publicise some work done over the summer by my colleague Lisa Scott (Lisa Rogers, as she then was) on showing how you can create a Google Custom Search Engine to search for OER materials. In summary, [...]
Over the past few weeks the question of how to find service end-points keeps coming up in conversation (I know, says a lot about the sort of conversations I have), for example we have been asked whether we can provide information about where are the RSS feed locations for the services/collections created by the all [...]
I keep coming back to thinking about embedding metadata into human-oriented resource descriptions web pages.
Last week I was discussing RDFa vs triple stores with Wilbert. Wilbert was making the point that publishing RDF is easier to manage, less error prone and easier on the consumer if you deal with it on its own rather than [...]
At the end of June we ran an event about technical approaches to gathering open educational resources. Our intent was that we would provide space and facilities for people to some and talk about these issues, but we would not prescribe anything like a schedule of presentations or discussion topics. So, people came [...]
CETIS has been funded by JISC to do some additional technical work relevant to the the UKOER programme. The work will cover three topics: deposit via RSS feeds, aggregation of OERs, and tracking & analysis of OER use.
Feed deposit
There is a need for services hosting OERs to provide a mechanism for depositors to upload multiple [...]
