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

Tue Jan 29 06:45:12 UTC 2019

Thank you. Im very interested in all things discovery.

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 11:15 PM J Marks <jkmarks at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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