UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 Metadata and Content Aggregation for UKOER Phil Barker R. John Robertson

UKOER programme 2nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009

Metadata and Content Aggregation for UKOER

Phil Barker <[email protected]>

R. John Robertson <[email protected]>

http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/


Warning!

Person-to-person chat is visible to session moderators


Introductions

What is your role in UK OER?A: Institutional strandB: Individual strandC: Subject strandD: Support / Management / Other[vote]


Introductions

What is your role in your project?A: Technical / developerB: ManagerC: EducatorD: Librarian[vote]


Session aims

Make sure the projects know about CETIS and our role in the UKOER programme.

Make sure the projects are familiar with the programme level technical & metadata requirements.

Get projects to think about their own metadata and technical requirements.

Discuss the relationship of the third of these to the first two.


About JISC CETIS

JISC Innovation Support Centre: Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards

provide strategic technical advice to JISC, supporting its development programmes

representing JISC on international standardisation initiatives

work with the wider educational community to facilitate the use of standards-based eLearning.

support various JISC Programmes, including UK OER


Domains and working groupsDomains Accessibility Assessment Educational Content (EC) E-Portfolio Enterprise Metadata and Digital

Repositories (MDR) Lifelong Learning Pedagogy

Working groups: Short life span, specific outputs,

smaller in scale than SIGs. Responding to needs of

community Some associated with a JISC

project or programme E.g.

Semantic technologies in teaching and learning;

widgets & mashups cloud computing &

institutions Content transcoder OER


Contacts

CETIS Web site: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/OER resources:

http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Educational_Content_OERR. John Robertson <[email protected]>Phil Barker: <[email protected]>Lorna M Campbell: <[email protected]>Sheila MacNeill: <[email protected]>Li Yuan: <[email protected]>


CETIS OER Support

Programme level support for JISC and projects Technical guidelines, e.g.

what packaging and syndication formats are used/appropriate what dissemination platforms are used/appropriate what resource descriptions are used/appropriate why and how of resource tracking, versioning, lifecycles

Don’t want to be intrusive, but we have some expectation that projects will communicate with us

For more details on how CETIS works see http://www.slideshare.net/philb/jisc-cetis-support-for-ukoer(Slides from UKOER start-up meeting)


Metadata: choose your definition?

A: data about data B: structured information that describes, explains, locates,

or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource

C: pretty much any information about anything.D: any of the above

[vote]


Activity

Think about what one needs to know in order to identify find select use cite manage

a resource.Write down what information you think it necessary, and

why, under each (some) of these headings.


Feedback

Use the chat to list share your list One heading at a time please. . .

identify find select use cite manage


Comments

You haven’t had time to finish this activity You (probably) haven’t thought of all scenarios What people want and what you can deliver may be

different


UKOER Programme Metadata requirements

See http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/03/30/metadata-guidelines-for-the-oer-programme/

ukoer tag Rights Title Author/owner/contributor Date (...) url File format Size

How does your list compare? Use the chat to comment on anything you don’t understand or think is not necessary.


Exposing metadata

Most platforms for sharing/managing resources show lots of metadata (even if you don’t realise it).

E.g. http://www.slideshare.net/philb/jisc-cetis-support-for-ukoer http://www.flickr.com/photos/philbarker/376795274/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBIVRwvUeE

Useful for resource discovery via Google


Structured Metadata

Useful if you want computers to understand the metadata

Not necessary for resource discovery via Google Useful for resource management

Using a standard structure is useful if you want to share it between computers

But does this happen? (vote)


Sharing Metadata

Did you think of sharing structured metadata in repository-land

eg LOM, DC, OAI-PMH, IMS-CP . . .

or in web-land? eg RSS, ATOM, OPML . . .

(or maybe you thought of library-land eg MARC, RDA, Z39.50, SRU . . .

)


How will you disseminate your resources?

As well as the JorumOpen, how do you plan to make your resources available?

A: Nothing else, just the JorumB: Our own/our partners’ website(s)C: Our own/our partners’ instance of repository s/w

(DSpace, ePrints, Intralibrary &c)D: Sites such as Flickr, SlideShare, YouTube, Blogs,

iTunes U, YouTube ... (as well or instead of own hosting)

(Use chat for alternative answers)


RSS/ATOM feeds

Will you be providing feeds about your resources?A: No plans / not applicableB: We’ll have one feed for latest resourceC: We’ll have feeds for key sets, e.g. all resources for

given topic, or results of custom search, ...D: We’ll have feeds for everything, right down to content

of individual resources.

See OER Technical Considerations Guidance to Bidders http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/280/ (slide 7)


Example uses of feeds

(hopefully you know about the obvious examples, personal feed readers, blog aggregators, podcasts, netvibes / iGoogle / PageFlakes?)

Journals’ Tables of Contents aggregation http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ Podcast aggregation:

http://podcast.steeple.org.uk/content/view/133/98/ See also http://www.steeple.org.uk/wiki/images/e/ef/EnsembleOverview.gif

Publishing to iTunesU CETIS Website Resource content feed: WordPress XML export/import

See also http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/single-page-rss-feeds-so-what-so-this/


OPML files

Will you be providing OPML files for your feeds?A: No plans, haven’t thought about it yet.B: Not applicable, there’ll just be the one feed.C: Yes. D: No (even though we have several feeds).


Summary

Think of your projects requirements for describing resuorces

Remember there are lots of contexts

Decide whether & how the resource description needs to be structured / machine readable

Remember there are lots of contexts

Bear in mind the programme requirements


Questions, comments, discussion . . .


This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland Licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/scotland/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA.

Documents

UKOER programme 2 nd Tuesday: Metadata. 11 Aug 2009 Metadata and Content Aggregation for UKOER Phil Barker R. John Robertson