standards and interoperability; rights issues status and summary 1
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STANDARDS AND INTEROPERABILITY; RIGHTS ISSUES
Status and summary
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Standards and interoperability
– To discuss best practice examples of the use of technical standards
– To identify which standards are used, how, and what benefits are delivered
(objectives from DoW)
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Prioritized issues
• Metadata standards (application profiles, strategies for vocabularies, curriculum mapping)
• Providing best practice examples of the use of standards with proven benefits – and examples not to follow
• Facilitating exchange of metadata across repositories • Facilitating exchange between repositories and
Virtual Learning Environments (VLE)/Learning Management Systems (LMS)
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First workshop, January 2008, London
• National IEEE LOM application profiles
• Vocabularies and curriculum linking
• Beyond LOM….
• Automated metadata generation
• LMS as barrier to content flow
• Common format for IWB files
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• Metadata creation by professional indexers is too expensive – quality of metadata produced by authors often not sufficient: Better solutions needed (tagging; (semi-) automatic metadata creation; integration into authoring tools; context aware metadata creation …).
• Most repositories currently do some sort of validation/moderation/augmentation of teacher produced metadata
• Many repositories have implemented automatic generation of a number of metadata elements (most notably: file type/size; user details; dates). Current developments/experiments are targeting elements such as: title, keywords, description
• OAI-PMH is the protocol for metadata harvesting
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Perceived accuracy of autogenerated metadata
• follow AMG-UC study lead by Intrallect
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Second workshop, Oegstgeest, February 2009
• Meeting user needs• Designing for
humans first, machines second
• Authentication and authorization
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Thematic synthesis report
• Due in august 2009
• Request for updates to survey (repository profiles)
• Linking with ASPECT, iCOPER…
• Main focus on perspective and status as seen from different stakeholders / user groups
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Rights issues
• To identify, discuss, document and produce guidelines, agreements and roadmaps for issues concerning intellectual property rights concerning repositories of learning resources
(objective from DoW)
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Prioritized issues
• Licensing schemes (consequences for remixing; Creative Commons; presenting usage rights; cross border concerns …)
• Relevant policies and initiatives (open educational resources; education of content creators; free access to content produced for public money; incentives for commercial producers …)
• Rights clearance practices (guidance to educators; strategies for providing copyright cleared material for education …)
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1st workshop, Ljubljana, March 2008
• Mindmap on rights issues for repository owners
• Open Licensing Schemes(CC by far most widespread – but still only implemented to limited degree)
• Guidance material for teachers – how, when, format..
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2nd workshop, Warwick, March 2009
• How to reduce complexity• Risk management strategies• Lack of coherent strategies
(outside individual projects/products); influencing copyright legislation; choice of licensing conditions
• Strong link between current business models for publishers
• Collection of awareness raising activities
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”Agreement templates” report
• Examples of:– Terms of Use – Deposit Licenses– Repository owner
guidelines
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Thematic synthesis report
• Due in September 2009
• Request for update of survey (repository profiles)
• Main focus includes:- Repository policies/strategies- Presenting usage rights- Guidance/awareness raising examples- Gap between legislation and user behaviour
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Images from flickr (all CC-BY license)
• Ostrich: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamiedfw/2417920096/• Donkey braying:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34813607@N07/3564655655• Loose ends (string theory):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/psyberartist/2369938197/• School bus on beach:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanrmiles/3373260968/• Brain coral:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laszlo-photo/149047693/• The law:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/limaoscarjuliet/225249268/
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