UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 Metadata and Content Aggregation for UKOER Phil Barker R. John Robertson

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UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 Introductions What is your role in UK OER? A: Institutional strand B: Individual strand C: Subject strand D: Support / Management / Other [vote]

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 Introductions What is your role in your project? A: Technical / developer B: Manager C: Educator D: Librarian [vote]

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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.

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 Contacts CETIS Web site: OER resources: R. John Robertson Phil Barker: Lorna M Campbell: Sheila MacNeill: Li Yuan:

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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 (Slides from UKOER start-up meeting)

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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]

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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.

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 Feedback Use the chat to list share your list One heading at a time please...  identify  find  select  use  cite  manage

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 UKOER Programme Metadata requirements See 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.

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 Exposing metadata Most platforms for sharing/managing resources show lots of metadata (even if you don’t realise it). E.g.    Useful for resource discovery via Google

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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)

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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... )

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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)

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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 (slide 7)

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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 Podcast aggregation:  See also Publishing to iTunesU CETIS Website Resource content feed: WordPress XML export/import  See also what-so-this/

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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).

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 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

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 Questions, comments, discussion...

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