[Open-education] [OER-advocacy] Fwd: OER Metadata Standards for Discovery: Call for Collaborators

Mon Jan 28 22:15:27 UTC 2019

Cable et al,

I would like to remind the community of the work Creative Commons
participated in some 10 years ago on this very topic. LRMI, the Learning
Resource Metadata [1] initiative has been adopted by and integrated within
Schema.org under "Creative Work" and includes things like learning resource
type [3], intended audience, typical age range, and the very important
"AlignmentObject" [3]. This work has more recently been harmonized into
other specifications/metadata models such as CEDS [4], and the new IMS
Global LTI Resource Search standard [5]. The LRMI taskforce is right now
discussing specific vocabularies for resource types [6]. Lastly, and in
support of these initiative, the IMS Global CASE [7] ("Competencies and
Academic Standards Exchange") address how to create and exchange a learning
standards or competency framework (e.g. what a student must learn and
demonstrate to provide learning or master)

[1] http://lrmi.dublincore.org/
[2] https://schema.org/learningResourceType
[3] https://schema.org/AlignmentObject
[4] https://ceds.ed.gov/element/000928/ (example for resource type elements)
[5] https://www.imsglobal.org/resource-search
[6]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u7Nniey6SMDCjXBOLws7IRrtNaXvYe6tvfDof8Po_Ck/edit#heading=h.vb28knroittx

[7] https://www.imsglobal.org/activity/case

I would highly recommend adding to this work and greatly discourage an
attempt to reinvent this wheel.

Best Regards,

Joshua Marks (IMS, LRMI, PCG, Curriki, etc.)

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 1:19 PM Cable Green <cable at creativecommons.org>
wrote:

> Greetings Open Education Friends:
>
> I'm forwarding this call for collaboration from my OER Librarian friend
> and colleague, Heather White.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Cable
>
> Cable Green, PhD
> Director of Open Education
> Creative Commons
>
>    - Join: CC Open Education Platform
>    <https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/05/invitation-join-cc-open-education-platform/>
>    - CC Global Network: get involved today
>    <https://network.creativecommons.org/get-involved/>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Heather White <Heather.White at mhcc.edu>
> Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 9:27 AM
> Subject: OER Metadata Standards for Discovery: Call for Collaborators
>
> *{please excuse cross postings & please share widely}*
>
>
>
> Finding OER remains a challenge for faculty and the librarians who support
> them and the reason is technical - as a community, we have not yet agreed
> on metadata standards for all of our various computer systems to use.
>
>
>
> 3 librarians in the Pacific Northwest are looking for technical services
> and systems librarians, and OER search engine administrators to come
> together and decide on metadata standards to improve the OER discovery
> process. While there's ongoing improvement in various OER repository search
> engines, librarians sending emails to listservs asking "anyone know of OER
> on this topic?" is still an all too common occurrence.
>
>
>
> It’s time to apply cataloging and systems librarians’ expertise to bring
> the OER discovery process up to par with traditional library research
> tools. And we need to do this in collaboration with our non-library
> colleagues that are optimizing OER search engines.
>
> Interested in helping? Want to learn more?
>
> Click here to sign up for the OER Metadata Group!
> <https://sites.google.com/view/oermetadatagroup/home>
>
> Direct link: https://sites.google.com/view/oermetadatagroup/home
>
>
>
>
>
> Heather White, MLS
>
> Library Technical Services Coordinator
>
> Mt Hood Community College
>
> 26000 SE Stark St., Gresham, OR 97030
>
> 503-491-7106
>
> heather.white at mhcc.edu
>
>
>
> *“Study, learn, help one another always.” – Chief Plenty Coups*
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