Metadata tagging based on the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) - a Norwegian pilot project

Brief Introduction to the pilot project ●Metadata tagging based on LRMI ●Following a mutually accepted minimum set of metadata attributes from LRMI ●Practical approach, pre piloting for addressing possibilities before developing a final profile. Participants tagging their own resources and sharing results and experiences. ●Strong support, all major publishing companies, public content providers, television stations, LMS providers, and other Edtech companies ●Under the auspices of the National Learning Committee Standards Norge( SNK / 186) ●Educational to the Curriculum is at the core of the participants testing

Background ●The Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education established an initiative to strengthen the Standards Norway committee for learning technology in ●Digital learning resources was given a priority in the new mandate for the committee ●Feedback from public and private organizations and companies, different reports and discussions all concluded that lack of an modern framework for metadata where critical important for further development for the whole educational sector ●NORLOM did never get a strong foothold in Norway. ( NORLOM is the norwegian application profile of the IEEE Learning Object Metadata specification

Approach The committee wanted a practical approach – NOT A theoretical discussion towards a new application profile Participants (content providers) tagging their own resources and sharing results and experiences. There was a general agreement on keeping things as simple as possible. The following Objectives and Scope was agreed one T

Objectives Main objective : ●Make it easier for teachers, students, parents and others to search, find and make use of relevant resources ●Make expansions of attributes eg establish attributes that will support access to resources for students with special needs ●By establishing a common framework increase trust for the quality of learning resources ( licensing, owner, for what user etc) Market perspective ●Basis for metadata directories ●Unlock recourses from silos ●Facilitate EdtTech vendors who develop tools and solutions for the education sector ●Facilitate small companies and startups in edtech ●International- By use of international standards and metadata; Building foundation for an world wide approach for educational soulutiones

Scope ●Open and web-based digital learning resources accessible to crawler- and indexing engines ●Static metadata (metadata for publishing) ●Metadata according to the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) specification, and embedded with formats JSON-LD or RDFa ●Digital learning resources addressing the K-12 curriculum and within a predefined range of subjects and education levels ●(Optional) testing and development based on Google Webmaster Tools and Google Custom Search (and API)

The broader Scope Dynamic metadata such as social metadata and activity data (but not a part of phase 1) The pilot do not take into consideration – business models – Licencing – whether we should have a national repositories, directories etc

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-The national curriculum database / API Grep

SOAP (WS) Odata (REST) REST- formats Topic Map SPARQL end point Backend Frontend available in several formats machine-readable data model (OWL) ETA Q4 2015

-The national curriculum database / API Educational Alignment Grep

ISO/IEC MLR LRMI New ISO-std: "Curriculum"? schema. org LOD cloud Compatible standards Educational alignment: Teaches, Grep, Læreplan i norsk, NOR1-05, Educational use: Refleksjon 10

LRMI in schema.org LOD-cloud Norwegian-Danish language development Grep

Future work ​ Conclude and report on the practical testing ​ Consider development of an application profile ​ ​ Consider activity on dynamic metadata

Eva Mjøvik, Are Mjølsnes, Eva Mjovik The Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education Are Mjølsnes