[Open-education] DCMI webinar on Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)

Wed Nov 19 10:54:31 UTC 2014

Taking place later on today - may be of interest!

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Subject: 	Wednesday's DCMI webinar on Learning Resource Metadata 
Initiative (LRMI)
Date: 	Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:15:03 -0800
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/The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative, describing learning 
resources with schema.org <http://schema.org/>, and more?/*
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*Phil Barker & Lorna Campbell (Cetis, UK)*/
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--*Date*19 November, 2014
--*Time:*10:00am-11:15am EST (UTC 15:00) World Clock: http://bit.ly/1pKiCUj
--*Event webpage:*
http://dublincore.org/resources/training/
https://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-DCMI-11-19-2014-register.html 

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*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a collaborative 
initiative that aims to make it easier for teachers and learners to find 
educational materials through major search engines and specialized 
resource discovery services. The approach taken by LRMI is to extend the 
schema.org <http://schema.org/> ontology so that educationally 
significant characteristics and relationships can be expressed. In this 
webinar, Phil Barker and Lorna M. Campbell of Cetis will introduce 
schema.org <http://schema.org/> and present the background to LRMI, its 
aims and objectives, and who is involved in achieving them. The webinar 
will outline the technical aspects of the LRMI specification, describe 
some example implementations and demonstrate how the discoverability of 
learning resources may be enhanced. Phil and Lorna will present the 
latest developments in LRMI implementation, drawing on an analysis of 
its use by a range of open educational resource repositories and 
aggregators, and will report on the potential of LRMI to enhance 
education search and discovery services. Whereas the development of LRMI 
has been inspired by schema.org <http://schema.org/>, the webinar will 
also include discussion of whether LRMI has applications beyond those of 
schema.org <http://schema.org/>.

*SPEAKERS:*

*Lorna Campbell* has worked in the domain of open education technology 
and interoperability standards for over fifteen years and has 
contributed to the development of a number of learning resource metadata 
specifications. Phil and Lorna were commissioned by Creative Commons to 
manage the third phase of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. 
LRMI is co-led by Creative Commons and the Association of Educational 
Publishers (AEP)--now the 501(c)(3) arm of the Association of American 
Publishers.

*Phil Barker* is a research fellow at Heriot-Watt University who has 
worked supporting the use of learning technology in Higher Education for 
twenty years. For much of this time he has worked with Lorna M. Campbell 
as part of Cetis. His work focuses on supporting the discovery and 
selection of appropriate resources, and he has contributed to the 
development of a number of learning resource metadata specifications. He 
was on the technical working group of the learning resource metadata 
initiative and has since worked on the third phase of LRMI promoting its 
uptake and use.

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/For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:/
*DCMI:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/
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*ASIS&T:* 
https://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-DCMI-11-19-2014-register.html
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