E-portfolio interoperability and the advance of Leap2A

E-portfolio interoperability and the advance of Leap2A Simon Grant JISC Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS) ePortfolio 2010, London 2010-07-05

Last year
PIOP 2 projects
Including JISCMail list still going strong today:
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2009-03 version agreed
Worked pretty well on a range of platforms
Much better than IMS eP
PebblePad
Mahara
ePET
etc.

Organisational development
We now have our own domain, leapspecs.org
All documentation there, including namespace
Working towards independence from CETIS
New orthography: “Leap2A” not “LEAP2A”
Nice logo to match
(strapline: e-portfolio portability)

New collaboration
MedBiquitous
http://www.medbiq.org/
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
Medical Interoperability Portfolio Standards
http://www.mips.org.uk/
Both using (and possibly extending) Leap2A

PIOP 3
Just about to finish, February to July 2010
3 original partners
PebblePad
Nottingham
ePET (Newcastle)
4 new adopters
MyKnowledgeMap
TAG Developments (BLi Education)
University of Derby
Nottingham Trent University / Desire2Learn

Changes 2009-03 to 2010-07
Single namespace leap2=“ http://terms.leapspecs.org/ ”
Clarification and simplification of attachments
New publication type – subtype of resource
Approve atom:contributor alongside atom:author
Intermission as new category for activities
Modification to how locations can be represented
leap2:spatial can now hold xhtml or structured content
Really, not much change was needed!

Rendering and validation
Many people felt need for validator
Also needed was a service for human reading
Put both together, validation errors shown in context
Now working well
Will be put on the leapspecs.org site

Issues currently on agenda
Affiliation
Representing how people relate to organisations
Are they a sub-type of activity?
Representing qualifications
Are they are sub-type of achievement?
Can we agree a vocabulary for types?

Hoped for soon
In current financial situation, probably no more funding
Need to integrate skills and competencies
So that portfolio tools can plug in frameworks / structures
Similar facility also needed by MedBiquitous
Even being considered for standardization by ISO...
But we need more careful research and thought
Underway in CETIS as well as elsewhere
Separate but co-ordinated specification
Independent, self-governing body for leapspecs.org
Leap2R

Thanks...
Thanks for your attention
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