[Open-education] [cc-openedu] Re: [OER-advocacy] Fwd: OER Metadata Standards for Discovery: Call for Collaborators
Wally Grotophorst
wally.grotophorst at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 19:08:06 UTC 2019
The schema is fundamentally important but adoption is key.
Perhaps there are ways to make existing schema more adoption-friendly.
The fact that Joshua's link list has 7 different links to relevant
schema seems like a clue.
- Wally
Wally Grotophorst
Associate University Librarian
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
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Angela.Secrest wrote on 1/29/19 7:01 AM:
>
> I second Joshua’s reminder and sentiment. Metadata is a part of the
> global conversation and is already recognized as a necessity for
> interoperability, discovery and sustainability. Some schemas are
> already highly developed – JISC, for example. This was one of my big
> takeaways from Open Repositories 2018.
>
> I’ll add to Joshua’s link list:
>
> The W3C OER Schema Community: https://www.w3.org/community/oerschema/
>
> http://oerschema.org/
>
> Best,
>
> Angela
>
> Angela K. Secrest
>
> District Director, Library Services
>
> https://library.hccs.edu
>
> *From:*cc-openedu at googlegroups.com
> [mailto:cc-openedu at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *J Marks
> *Sent:* Monday, January 28, 2019 4:15 PM
> *To:* Cable Green
> *Cc:* Educause Openness Constituent Group; OER Advocacy Coalition;
> OER-DISCUSS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK; OER Forum; Open Educaton @ OKFN;
> OPENEDSIG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK; International OER Advocacy; Open Education
> Platform; Heather White
> *Subject:* [cc-openedu] Re: [OER-advocacy] Fwd: OER Metadata Standards
> for Discovery: Call for Collaborators
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> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <mailto:heather.white at mhcc.edu>
>
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