LRMI:What on Earth Could Justify Another Attempt at Educational Metadata?
Lorna M. Campbell and Phil Barker
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Learning Resource Metadata Initiative
Agenda
• Cetis’ involvement with LRMI, who funds it, what’s it for – Lorna.
• Technical introduction to schema.org & LRMI – Phil.
• Build your own custom search engine! – Phil et al.
• Coffee break
• Overview of implementation projects – Lorna
• Jorum LRMI implementation – Ben Ryan, Jorum
• Overview of other implementations – Phil
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What on Earth Could Justify Another Attempt at Educational Metadata?
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A. The world needs more educational metadata standards.
B. We love educational metadata.C. We are gluttons for punishment.D. All of the above.
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How much does Cetis love educational metadata standards?
This much….
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First there was…the LOM
Learning Object
Metadata
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First the was…the LOM
Learning Object
Metadata
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First came … FAILTE Metadata Guidelines
• 2001.• Facilitating Access to Information on Learning
Technology for Engineers.• JISC DNER project.• EEVL, EASIT-Eng, LTSN-Eng, (not Cetis).• Jenny Slater, Loughborough University and
Phil Barker, Heriot Watt University.• Based on Dublin Core and IMS Meta-Data.
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Then came … RLLOMAP
• 2003.• RDN / LTSN LOM Application Profile.• Andy Powell, UKOLN and Phil Barker, Heriot
Watt University.• IEEE LOM.
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Meanwhile… the UK Common Metadata Framework
• JISC eXchange for Learning (X4L) Programme metadata profile.• Developed in 2003.• Lorna M. Campbell, CETIS and Gerry
Graham, Learning and Teaching Scotland.• Based on IMS Meta-data.
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Which morphed into…UK LOM Core
• 2003.• UK Learning Object Metadata Core.• By Lorna M. Campbell, and Phil Barker,
CETIS and Gerry Graham, Learning and Teaching Scotland.• Based on IEEE LOM / IMS Meta-data.
Copyright © David Kernohan, #Eduprog Grand High Mage.
At the same time…IMS LRM
• 2002 - 2006.• IMS Learning Resource Meta-data. • Best Practice Guide by Lorna M.
Campbell and Phil Barker, CETIS and many others.• Bindings and best practice for IEEE LOM.
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Copyright © 2006 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Not forgetting…DC-Ed
• 2006 - 2011.• Dublin Core Education Application
Profile Task Group.• Focused on defining resource classes
and domain model.• Also worked in collaboration with IEEE
LTSC
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A brief flirtation…ISO MLR
• 2008 - 2009.• ISO Metadata for Learning Resources.
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Which brings us back to…LRMI
• 2011 - 2014.• Learning Resource Metadata Initiative.
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What is LRMI?
• Learning Resource Metadata Initiative.• Co-led by Creative Commons and the
Association of Education Publishers (AEP).• Funded by Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation.• Currently in third and final phase of
funding.LRMI, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014
How did Cetis get involved with LRMI?
• 2011 - Phil Barker responded to the open call to join the Technical Working Group in.• 2013 – Cetis and Heriot Watt University
sub-contracted by Creative Commons to manage LRMI.
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Why did Cetis get involved with LRMI?• A new and interesting approach to learning
resource metadata. • Open and transparent working processes. • Highly relevant to OER discovery.• Related to work with Learning Registry.• We’re gluttons for punishment.
But what does LRMI do?
LRMI aims to make it easier for teachers and learners to find educational materials through major search engines and specialized resource discovery services.
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How does it do that then?
LRMI has extended the schema.org ontology in order to allow the description of educationally important properties of resources to be marked-up in web pages in a manner that is easily understood by search engines.
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But what’s schema.org?
Schema.org is a joint initiative by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Bing, Yandex and W3C that aims to help search engines interpret information on web pages to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the information they are looking for on the web.
So how does LRMI relate to schema.org?
LRMI has added properties to schema.org to describe items of type CreativeWork.
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And these properties are?
• educational alignment• educational use• interactivity type• is based on url• learning resource type• time required• typical age range
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Now over to Phil for more techy stuff on schema.org and LRMI.
(He really does love metadata you know…)
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educational metadata?
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