Publishing Digital Content to a LOR Publishing Digital Content to a LOR 1

Packaging and publishing “The means by which collections of digital learning content can be assembled so that they can be found, accessed, used by learners, tracked and monitored through learning platforms.” Packaging and publishing “The means by which collections of digital learning content can be assembled so that they can be found, accessed, used by learners, tracked and monitored through learning platforms.” Publishing 2

LOR Workflow Process  three main stages:  development  approval of the LO or digital learning content  publication into the institution’s LOR or content management system LOR Workflow Process  three main stages:  development  approval of the LO or digital learning content  publication into the institution’s LOR or content management system Publishing 3

Institution Options  separate workflow for each stage  integrated workflow  person(s) responsible for steps within each stage may differ  order of the steps may differ Institution Options  separate workflow for each stage  integrated workflow  person(s) responsible for steps within each stage may differ  order of the steps may differ Publishing 4

5 LOR Workflow Process: Sample I creator contributes content to LOR for general review reviewed for content, instructional design, copyright, etc. digital content approved and made public in LOR digital content approved and made public to SCORE members

Publishing 6 LOR Workflow Process: Sample II creator adds metadata to LO or asset creator contributes content to LOR digital content made public in LOR

 Searching, searching, searching...  It all depends on words?  How do I know which words to use?  Searching, searching, searching...  It all depends on words?  How do I know which words to use? Publishing 7

What is metadata?  data about data used for retrieval  information about an object  description of a “resource” like a library catalog record  search attributes, such as title, author, date, location, description and subject  location of metadata  separate from the resource described  embedded within resource What is metadata?  data about data used for retrieval  information about an object  description of a “resource” like a library catalog record  search attributes, such as title, author, date, location, description and subject  location of metadata  separate from the resource described  embedded within resource Publishing 8

Why use metadata?  improves precision in Web searching  facilitates discovery of relevant information  facilitates organization and classification of information  supports digital rights management  supports version control and provenance  promotes and enables interoperability Why use metadata?  improves precision in Web searching  facilitates discovery of relevant information  facilitates organization and classification of information  supports digital rights management  supports version control and provenance  promotes and enables interoperability Publishing 9

Metadata sets: IEEE Learning Object Metadata 10 This SREB-SCORE graphic is taken from IMS Meta-data Best Practice Guide for IEEE — 2002 Standard for Learning Object Metadata.IMS Meta-data Best Practice Guide for IEEE — 2002 Standard for Learning Object Metadata

Publishing 11 Metadata Sets: Dublin Core Elements  title, subject, description and date  creator, publisher and contributor  type and format  identifier  source  language  relation and coverage  rights Metadata Sets: Dublin Core Elements  title, subject, description and date  creator, publisher and contributor  type and format  identifier  source  language  relation and coverage  rights

How long does it take?  difficult  time-consuming  frequently asked questions about metadata:  tools/doc/faq.html How long does it take?  difficult  time-consuming  frequently asked questions about metadata:  tools/doc/faq.html Publishing 12

Publishing Adding metadata: LOR views & templates Adding metadata: LOR views & templates 13

Publishing IMS Content Packaging: Internal Metadata IMS package manifest file MANIFEST metadata organizations resources sub-manifest(s) actual files (HTML, images, media, etc.) content files Adapted from IMS Content Packaging Best Practice and Implementation Guide Version of October 2004: 14

Publishing Importing Metadata 15

Publishing Exercise: Practice tagging & publishing Exercise: Practice tagging & publishing 16

SLIDE: 17 This presentation was developed by Liz Glowa and Michael Anderson and was edited by William Hawk, June Weis, and Lisa Johnson. Development of this resource was funded by the members of the SREB Sharable Content Object Repositories for Education (SCORE) initiative.