Metadata

A few thoughts from the OER 12 conference held in Cambridge last week. Sadly I wasn’t able to stay for the whole conference but the first two days left me with plenty of food for thought. This year the event was held in conjunction with the annual OCWC conference and as a result [...]

Last week I went to the hackday organised by the JLeRN team and CETIS to kick off Mimas’ JLeRN Experiment. It you haven’t come across JLeRN before, it’s a JISC funded exploratory project to build an experimental Learning Registry node. The event, which was organised by JLeRN’s Sarah Currier and CETIS’ dear [...]

The Technical Requirements for the JISC / HEA OER 3 Programme remain unchanged from those established for UKOER 2. These requirements can be referred to here: OER 2 Technical Requirements. However, many projects now have considerable experience and we would anticipate that they would engage with some of the technical challenges [...]

In the spirit of Godwin’s law, I would propose that “As any discussion about metadata grows longer the probability of a comparison to Google approaches one.” Of course the comparison is usually that formal metadata is insignificant for the resource discovery needs of most people when compared to Google. On one hand this is an over simplification: metadata [...]

What standards did projects intend to use to describe and package their OERs? - what other standards are in use?  This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series. [These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note] Descriptive choices Dublin Core “The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative “popularized the idea of “core [...]