On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 02:33:15 AM Phil Barker wrote: > 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. >
Thanks for al lthe replies. Wayne, Jim and Phil. Here is the elaboration of the project I am doing. In India NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) has an education technology unit called CIET (Central Institute for Educational Technology). My team at the gnowledge lab (http://lab.gnowledge.org/) is collaborating with them in designing and developing the platform that will publish all the topics covered in the school education in India from class 1 to Class 12). The portal is taking shape at http://nroer.in/. All topics will be linked to resources. The resources can be pictures, videos, text, simulations and other interactive learning objects. All these resources will be proper OER, in the sense that they will be released under CC by SA. In the new incarnation of the portal, we would like to support standard metadata. Naturally LRMI came to my attention. Since we already know how to use schema.org, it is not difficult for us to implement LRMI. We wish to complete this work by June 2014. Since a large number of educational resources will become available, and in several laguages of our country, this will eventually become a massive OER repo. Curating such a big repo with a standard metadata vocabulary is therefore essential. We are also thinking about supporting OAI-PMH protocol. This will be next step. Phil's response is giving me an assurance, so we could confidently spend time to support schema.org and LRMI. -- GN -- -- 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.
