Metadata and Content Aggregation for UKOER Phil Barker <philb@icbl.hw.ac.uk> R. John Robertson <robert.robertson@strath.ac.uk> http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/

Phil Barker <philb@icbl.hw.ac.uk>

R. John Robertson <robert.robertson@strath.ac.uk>

http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/

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Introductions What is your role in UK OER? A: Institutional strand B: Individual strand C: Subject strand D: Support / Management / Other [vote]

What is your role in UK OER?

A: Institutional strand

B: Individual strand

C: Subject strand

D: Support / Management / Other

[vote]

Introductions What is your role in your project? A: Technical / developer B: Manager C: Educator D: Librarian [vote]

What is your role in your project?

A: Technical / developer

B: Manager

C: Educator

D: Librarian

[vote]

Session aims Make sure the projects know about CETIS and our role in the UKOER programme. Make sure the projects are familiar with the programme level technical & metadata requirements. Get projects to think about their own metadata and technical requirements. Discuss the relationship of the third of these to the first two.

Make sure the projects know about CETIS and our role in the UKOER programme.

Make sure the projects are familiar with the programme level technical & metadata requirements.

Get projects to think about their own metadata and technical requirements.

Discuss the relationship of the third of these to the first two.

About JISC CETIS JISC Innovation Support Centre: Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards provide strategic technical advice to JISC, supporting its development programmes representing JISC on international standardisation initiatives work with the wider educational community to facilitate the use of standards-based eLearning. support various JISC Programmes, including UK OER

JISC Innovation Support Centre: Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards

provide strategic technical advice to JISC, supporting its development programmes

representing JISC on international standardisation initiatives

work with the wider educational community to facilitate the use of standards-based eLearning.

support various JISC Programmes, including UK OER

Domains and working groups Domains Accessibility Assessment Educational Content (EC) E-Portfolio Enterprise Metadata and Digital Repositories (MDR) Lifelong Learning Pedagogy Working groups : Short life span, specific outputs, smaller in scale than SIGs. Responding to needs of community Some associated with a JISC project or programme E.g. Semantic technologies in teaching and learning; widgets & mashups cloud computing & institutions Content transcoder OER

Domains

Accessibility

Assessment

Educational Content (EC)

E-Portfolio

Enterprise

Metadata and Digital Repositories (MDR)

Lifelong Learning

Pedagogy

Working groups :

Short life span, specific outputs, smaller in scale than SIGs.

Responding to needs of community

Some associated with a JISC project or programme

E.g.

Semantic technologies in teaching and learning;

widgets & mashups

cloud computing & institutions

Content transcoder

OER

Contacts CETIS Web site: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/ OER resources: http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Educational_Content_OER R. John Robertson <robert.robertson@strath.ac.uk> Phil Barker: <philb@icbl.hw.ac.uk> Lorna M Campbell: <lmc@strath.ac.uk> Sheila MacNeill: <s.macneill@strath.ac.uk> Li Yuan: <L.Yuan@bolton.ac.uk>

CETIS Web site: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/

OER resources: http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Educational_Content_OER

R. John Robertson <robert.robertson@strath.ac.uk>

Phil Barker: <philb@icbl.hw.ac.uk>

Lorna M Campbell: <lmc@strath.ac.uk>

Sheila MacNeill: <s.macneill@strath.ac.uk>

Li Yuan: <L.Yuan@bolton.ac.uk>

CETIS OER Support Programme level support for JISC and projects Technical guidelines, e.g. what packaging and syndication formats are used/appropriate what dissemination platforms are used/appropriate what resource descriptions are used/appropriate why and how of resource tracking, versioning, lifecycles Don’t want to be intrusive, but we have some expectation that projects will communicate with us  For more details on how CETIS works see http://www.slideshare.net/philb/jisc-cetis-support-for-ukoer (Slides from UKOER start-up meeting)

Programme level support for JISC and projects

Technical guidelines, e.g.

what packaging and syndication formats are used/appropriate

what dissemination platforms are used/appropriate

what resource descriptions are used/appropriate

why and how of resource tracking, versioning, lifecycles

Don’t want to be intrusive, but we have some expectation that projects will communicate with us 

For more details on how CETIS works see http://www.slideshare.net/philb/jisc-cetis-support-for-ukoer (Slides from UKOER start-up meeting)

Metadata: choose your definition? A: data about data B: structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource C: pretty much any information about anything. D: any of the above [vote]

A: data about data

B: structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource

C: pretty much any information about anything.

D: any of the above

[vote]

Activity Think about what one needs to know in order to identify find select use cite manage a resource. Write down what information you think it necessary, and why, under each (some) of these headings.

Think about what one needs to know in order to

identify

find

select

use

cite

manage

a resource.

Write down what information you think it necessary, and why, under each (some) of these headings.

Feedback Use the chat to list share your list One heading at a time please. . . identify find select use cite manage

Use the chat to list share your list

One heading at a time please. . .

identify

find

select

use

cite

manage

Comments You haven’t had time to finish this activity You (probably) haven’t thought of all scenarios What people want and what you can deliver may be different

You haven’t had time to finish this activity

You (probably) haven’t thought of all scenarios

What people want and what you can deliver may be different

UKOER Programme Metadata requirements See http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/03/30/metadata-guidelines-for-the-oer-programme/ ukoer tag Rights Title Author/owner/contributor Date (...) url File format Size How does your list compare? Use the chat to comment on anything you don’t understand or think is not necessary.

See http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/03/30/metadata-guidelines-for-the-oer-programme/

ukoer tag

Rights

Title

Author/owner/contributor

Date (...)

url

File format

Size

How does your list compare? Use the chat to comment on anything you don’t understand or think is not necessary.

Exposing metadata Most platforms for sharing/managing resources show lots of metadata (even if you don’t realise it). E.g. http://www.slideshare.net/philb/jisc-cetis-support-for-ukoer http://www.flickr.com/photos/philbarker/376795274/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBIVRwvUeE Useful for resource discovery via Google

Most platforms for sharing/managing resources show lots of metadata (even if you don’t realise it).

E.g.

http://www.slideshare.net/philb/jisc-cetis-support-for-ukoer

http://www.flickr.com/photos/philbarker/376795274/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBIVRwvUeE

Useful for resource discovery via Google

Structured Metadata Useful if you want computers to understand the metadata Not necessary for resource discovery via Google Useful for resource management Using a standard structure is useful if you want to share it between computers But does this happen? (vote)

Useful if you want computers to understand the metadata

Not necessary for resource discovery via Google

Useful for resource management

Using a standard structure is useful if you want to share it between computers

But does this happen? (vote)

Sharing Metadata Did you think of sharing structured metadata in repository-land eg LOM, DC, OAI-PMH, IMS-CP . . . or in web-land? eg RSS, ATOM, OPML . . . (or maybe you thought of library-land eg MARC, RDA, Z39.50, SRU . . . )

Did you think of sharing structured metadata in repository-land

eg LOM, DC, OAI-PMH, IMS-CP . . .

or in web-land?

eg RSS, ATOM, OPML . . .

(or maybe you thought of library-land

eg MARC, RDA, Z39.50, SRU . . .

)

How will you disseminate your resources? As well as the JorumOpen, how do you plan to make your resources available? A: Nothing else, just the Jorum B: Our own/our partners’ website(s) C: Our own/our partners’ instance of repository s/w (DSpace, ePrints, Intralibrary &c) D: Sites such as Flickr, SlideShare, YouTube, Blogs, iTunes U, YouTube ... (as well or instead of own hosting) (Use chat for alternative answers)

As well as the JorumOpen, how do you plan to make your resources available?

A: Nothing else, just the Jorum

B: Our own/our partners’ website(s)

C: Our own/our partners’ instance of repository s/w (DSpace, ePrints, Intralibrary &c)

D: Sites such as Flickr, SlideShare, YouTube, Blogs, iTunes U, YouTube ... (as well or instead of own hosting)

(Use chat for alternative answers)

RSS/ATOM feeds Will you be providing feeds about your resources? A: No plans / not applicable B: We’ll have one feed for latest resource C: We’ll have feeds for key sets, e.g. all resources for given topic, or results of custom search, ... D: We’ll have feeds for everything, right down to content of individual resources. See OER Technical Considerations Guidance to Bidders http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/280/ (slide 7)

Will you be providing feeds about your resources?

A: No plans / not applicable

B: We’ll have one feed for latest resource

C: We’ll have feeds for key sets, e.g. all resources for given topic, or results of custom search, ...

D: We’ll have feeds for everything, right down to content of individual resources.

See OER Technical Considerations Guidance to Bidders http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/280/ (slide 7)

Example uses of feeds (hopefully you know about the obvious examples, personal feed readers, blog aggregators, podcasts, netvibes / iGoogle / PageFlakes?) Journals’ Tables of Contents aggregation http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ Podcast aggregation: http://podcast.steeple.org.uk/content/view/133/98/ See also http://www.steeple.org.uk/wiki/images/e/ef/EnsembleOverview.gif Publishing to iTunesU CETIS Website Resource content feed: WordPress XML export/import See also http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/single-page-rss-feeds-so-what-so-this/

(hopefully you know about the obvious examples, personal feed readers, blog aggregators, podcasts, netvibes / iGoogle / PageFlakes?)

Journals’ Tables of Contents aggregation http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/

Podcast aggregation: http://podcast.steeple.org.uk/content/view/133/98/

See also http://www.steeple.org.uk/wiki/images/e/ef/EnsembleOverview.gif

Publishing to iTunesU

CETIS Website

Resource content feed: WordPress XML export/import

See also http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/single-page-rss-feeds-so-what-so-this/

OPML files Will you be providing OPML files for your feeds? A: No plans, haven’t thought about it yet. B: Not applicable, there’ll just be the one feed. C: Yes. D: No (even though we have several feeds).

Will you be providing OPML files for your feeds?

A: No plans, haven’t thought about it yet.

B: Not applicable, there’ll just be the one feed.

C: Yes.

D: No (even though we have several feeds).

Summary Think of your projects requirements for describing resuorces Remember there are lots of contexts Decide whether & how the resource description needs to be structured / machine readable Remember there are lots of contexts Bear in mind the programme requirements

Think of your projects requirements for describing resuorces

Remember there are lots of contexts

Decide whether & how the resource description needs to be structured / machine readable

Remember there are lots of contexts

Bear in mind the programme requirements

Questions, comments, discussion . . .

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