Open Course Data at Loughborough University

Open Course Dataat Loughborough

UniversityMartin Hamilton

http://martinh.net

Open.Lboro

Open Course Data project

Joint effort from Academic Registry, Marketing and Communications and IT Services. Exploring whether Terminal Four Site Manager CMS can be canonical source of course marketing information. Looking at process simplification more generally.

Data Mapping

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Site Manager CMS

Site Manager CMS

Formatting as CSV

Formatting as CSV

CSV as a Starting Point...

Slurping that CSV...

Structured data

Baby Steps

Next Steps

Key point: Does CMS approach work for folk involved in course marketing? Also for consideration:

● Useful data that isn't in our prospectus?● Composite fields and programme variants● Output directly from CMS as XML?● Prospectus app development● Wider process simplification stuff

Next Steps

Next Steps

Next Steps

Next Steps

Open Course Dataat Loughborough

Martin Hamiltonhttp://martinh.net