What technical protocols are projects using to share their resource? and how are they planning on representing their resources in Jorum? 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] Dissemination protocols The chosen dissemination protocols are usually already built in the platforms in … Continue reading »
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UKOER 2: Content management platforms
What platforms are UKOER 2 projects using to host and manage their content? What types of content are they releasing? 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] OER types: Projects in UKOER 2 have released resources at various levels of granularity from individual … Continue reading »
Differences in managing learning materials?
Last week CETIS organised a workshop at the repository fringe 2011 #rfringe11 on the Advances in Open Systems for Learning Materials (#rfCETIS ). Phil’s collected blog posts and presentations-here. This post is to briefly capture some of the discussion around the warm up act – our attempt to help the workshop participants, think about some of the … Continue reading »
OER Hackday: initial reflections
On Thursday and Friday CETIS and UKOLN ran OERHack last time I counted we had a little over 250 tweets. Once we take ‘OERHack’ and RT out of the picture we see: 250 tweets isn’t that many for 2 days and ~40 people but that’s cause everyone was busy Beforehand the event we had some … Continue reading »
opened10: brief thoughts
first thoughts and reflections on opened10 Continue reading »
CETIS OER Gathering
We’re organising a developer event on harvesting, aggregating and collecting OERs. Creating an opportunity for developers to work on some of the issues around collecting and using OERs. We’re looking at technical issues around collecting OERs into your ‘system’ and sharing content from your ‘system’ with dynamic collections. More specifically we hope to: learn more … Continue reading »
Custom ‘repository’ developments in the UKOER programme
One interesting development in the UKOER programme has been how many projects have chosen to build their own repository/database to manage their content in some form. Normally the phrase ‘we’ve built our own repository’ makes me worry in the same that ‘we’re developing our own standard’ or ‘our own controlled vocabulary’ does. However, these projects have had … Continue reading »
Use of repository software in the UKOER programme
In the UKOER programme a number of projects have chosen to use repository software to manage their educational materials. Such software may be commercial, open source, or hosted (often using open source). Alongside research information systems, repositories occupy an increasingly well established position in institutional infrastructure for managing and sharing research materials (including theses, preprints, and metadata about articles). Consequently for many institutions they offer … Continue reading »
The use of OAI-PMH and OAI-ORE in the UKOER programme
OAI-PMH The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH ; http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html ) “provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting.” The protocol is widely used by repository software to make metadata about the resources they store available. In its use the repository acts as a data provider which is then able to be … Continue reading »
RSS for deposit, Jorum and UKOER: part 2 commentary
Following on from part 1 which reviewed Jorum’s requirements for RSS-based deposit, this section synthesises the comments and feedback emerging in response to it. Community views In response to the requirements and position papers a number of feeds where submitted for testing and there has been some thoughtful reflection on the issues in the blogs … Continue reading »
