This document discusses open data standards for education and training. It provides examples of open standards like Dublin Core and HTML, and examples of standards that are not fully open, requiring payment or limiting reuse. The document then focuses on the Leap2A project, which developed an open e-portfolio standard based on Atom. It recommends using an open license, involving developers, reusing existing work, having good governance, publicity, and modest ongoing support to help standards like Leap2A be adopted and advance towards formal standardization.

1. Open Data Standards for Education and Training Simon Grant JISC CETIS “ Open to the Public”: BCS OSSG Meeting London, 2011-06-30

2. Open standards... JISC Business Case discusses ... adopted and maintained by a not-for-profit organisation

3. development through open decision-making procedure available to all

4. free access, use, copy and distribution

5. IP irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis Refers to European Interoperability Framework for pan-European eGovernment services ( 2004 ref )

6. But not really black-and-white

7. Examples of (fairly) open standards Dublin Core DCMI Metadata Terms

8. "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License"

9. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ IETF RFCs including Atom (see later)

10. many communication and security protocols etc

11. freely available

12. neutral licence but prefers royalty-free

13. can create derivative works

14. Examples of (fairly) open standards (continued) W3C HTML , CSS , XML , RDF

15. HTML5 , RDFa ,

16. Widgets http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/WidgetSpecs

17. freely available