The document discusses Nick Sheppard's work as a repository developer at Leeds Metropolitan University, including developing applications to manage and share open educational resources across multiple repositories using metadata standards and protocols like OAI-PMH and SWORD. It also describes projects to build tools that extract and generate metadata for discovering and accessing learning objects stored in different repositories.

1. Metadata and MeNick Sheppard – Repository Developer Leeds Metropolitan Universityn.e.sheppard@leedsmet.ac.ukBlogs/twitter: http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/http://acerep.wordpress.com/http://twitter.com/mrnick

2. Metadata and MeLightening bio

3. Context - Repository Projects at Leeds Met

4. UKOER project - Unicycle

5. An Application Profile for UKOER

6. Interoperability?

7. ALPS CETL repository project (ACErep)

8. Xpert for ACErep

9. Harvest by OAI-PMH / Deposit by SWORD

10. SWORD and metadataLightening Bio BA English Literature

11. Worked in a bookshop for a bit

12. Worked in Mental Health for a bit

13. Worked in a library for a bit

14. Joined Leeds Met in 2007

15. JISC funded repository start-up

16. NOT a qualified librarian

17. NOT a professsionalcataloguerRepository Projects at Leeds Metropolitan UniversityMultiple Application Profiles for different resource-types. IEEE LOM mapped to DC for research material—extracted by SRU and formatted programmaticallyJISC funding awarded for PERSoNA to investigate social networking to facilitate connection between institutional functions and individuals’ own use of repository July 2008 .Cross-institutional project (ACErep) - searching and depositing health related Learning Objects into multiple repositories January 2010 .JISC funding awarded for Repository Start-Up to serve prioritised set of needs - to manage a broad range of material . October 2008 . June 2009 . JorumOpen released - all UKOER resources must be uploaded to national JISC supported repositoryDevelopment begins on Open Search - building on the work of IRISS and utilising SRU March 2007 January 2008 May 2010Organisational structure –collections by type (LO/research). SRU access managed by tokensJISC funding awarded for Bibliosight to extract metadata from Web of Science using WoS web-services APIFuture Developments Improved workflows for OA research/OER deposit (SWORD)

18. Ongoing development to Open Search (eg. improved browse)

19. Dynamic bibliographic feeds to author web-pages

20. VLE integration

21. Build on Bibliosight & Streamline

22. Search Engine OptimisationWork closely with Jorum on bulk upload of IMS from Leeds Met to JorumOpenOpen Search Version 2.0 - Research / OER, advanced search, browse, records formatted by type, individual HTML page for each recordCLA archive - link to resources directly from the VLEJISC funding awarded for Streamline to develop tools to create metadata for resource discovery (Learning Objects)JISC funding (UKOER) awarded for Unicycle to develop prototype mechanism for the export and import of Open Educational Resources at Leeds Met Consultancy across projects identifies intraLibraryas most suitable platform - software implementedApril 2007 March 2010 July 2008 Jorum able to download .zip of all resources for bulk import June 2008 November 2009 May 2009 CLA digitisation service very successful - widely used across institution with over 1000 resources uploaded to dateMultiple taxonomies for different types of resourcesRepository Developer: Nick SheppardEmail: n.e.sheppard@leedsmet.ac.ukBlog: http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/

23. UKOER project - Unicycle Funded under JISC ukoer(phase 1)

24. Develop process by which staff able to contribute to and draw upon a central repository of OER

25. Granular approach to OER

26. “Resources” rather than “Courseware”

27. Simple Application Profile – ukoer guidelines

28. Mediated deposit

29. Leeds Met repository, Jorum Open and other suitable outletshttp://unicycle-leedsmet.ning.com/

30. An Application Profile for UKOER Discussion coordinated by CETIS http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/03/30/metadata-guidelines-for-the-oer-programme/

31. Keep it simple

32. Mandatory fields

33. Recommended fields

34. Individual projects should think about their own metadata requirements

35. InteroperabilityMandatory Metadata Programme tag – ukoer

36. Author / owner / contributor

37. Date

38. URL

39. Title

40. Technical Information (Licence info soon became mandatory!)

41. Recommended Metadata Language

42. Subject classifications

43. Keywords

44. Tags

45. Comments

46. Description

47. Interoperability? Leeds Met – intraLibrary (IEEE LOM)

48. JorumOpen – DSpace (Dublin Core)

49. Harvest ukoer projects by RSS (link only)

50. Bulk upload of IMS Content Package (Resource + imsmanifest.xml)

51. Virtual Maths resource in JorumOpen

52. Little point in metadata not supported by Jorum (or is there?)ALPS CETL repository project (ACErep) Search across multiple platforms for ALPS resources

53. Download resource from any of the platforms into the working arena of their choice

54. Adapt existing resource to suit local use

55. Deposit original/adapted resource into one or more of the repositories maintained by CETL partnersPossible scenarios Bespoke portal to cross-search IRs

56. Submit to an IR by SWORD

57. Harvest / index metadata

58. Submit to Jorum by SWORD

59. Search Jorum from portalBut...ALPS may require different metadata than UKOER

60. Explicit priority from user group: resources presented in context of specific learning/assessment outcomes

61. Can Jorum accommodate this?

62. No Open API for JorumThe solution – Xpert?http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/

63. Distributed repository of e-learning resources

64. Metadata aggregation

65. Harvest by RSS and OAI-PMH

66. APIs available - Xpert Labs

67. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/labs/Harvest OAI-PMH/search using Xpert APIYSJ Digirep“There it was. Title. Link. Item. Description. Enclosure. Author. Category. Pub date. It were a simple format, you didn’t need anything else. Ask yourself, what more do you need?” Winston Jingo on RSS harvestThe Plight of Metadata (2010) http://vimeo.com/16908120May require bespoke metadata for ACErepe.g. resources presented in context of specific learning/assessment outcomesWinston meet OAI-PMH http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/

68. Possible scenario for SWORD depositDeposit Form(ALPS metadata)Selective SWORD deposit depending on user-affiliationAll deposits to JorumOpenWhat about resource duplication?YSJ Digirep

69. SWORD and metadataintraLibrary accepts IMSCP by SWORD

70. JorumOpen (DSpace) accepts METS by SWORD

71. Digirep – no SWORD yet (expect IMSCP)

72. LUDOS – no SWORD yet (expect METS)

73. Need to package metadata as IMSCP and METS