On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 05:33:51 UTC, Nagarjuna G wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to know if LRMI metadata is considered standard enough for OER? > I notice that CC is also pushing LRMI. > http://creativecommons.org/tag/learning-resource-metadata-initiative >
Hello. Yes, Creative Commons do support LRMI. They, along with the American Association of Publishers, were funded by the Gates foundation to extend schema.org so that it could be used to describe educationally significant characteristics of resources, that initiative became LRMI. I work with Creative Commons on that, I also have a background in metadata and Open Educational Resources in general. The elements that LRMI proposed were adopted by schema.org some time ago, so in terms of being "standard enough" they can be considered alongside the rest of schema.org. If you are thinking of schema.org / microdata in the HTML of OERs in order to provide embedded metadata that can be used to enhance resource discovery, then you would be following many of the biggest sites on the web, with the backing of Google, Yahoo and Bing. Obviously whereas YouTube uses the schema elements for videos, you would want to use those parts of schema that are relevant to education, and so would use LRMI properties. You wouldn't be the first, among those already using LRMI properties in the HTML of their public webpages are MIT OCW and OER Commons. If you're thinking of using LRMI as the basis for a metadata schema in some other context, or in some other serialization, that too is possible. For example the Learning Registry <http://learningregistry.org/> store LRMI metadata as JSON records. Either way it would be good to know more about what you have in mind. I think LRMI / schema.org is a good match for OER. schema.org microdata or RDFa embedded in HTML is designed to support the discovery of resources on the open web whereas other metadata approaches come into their own when the resource itself cannot be searched. Let me know if I can help. best regards, Phil Barker -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
