Metadata and Me

December 6, 2010 by 1 Comment

I’ve been invited to speak on Friday at an event in York – The Metadata Forum – Metadata For Complex Objects and will be focussing on our ukoer project Unicycle which utilised a fairly lightweight Application Profile based on programme recommendations from CETIS – http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/03/30/metadata-guidelines-for-the-oer-programme/

N.B. Worth reviewing these in the context of CETIS’ updated recommendations for phase 2 – http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2010/12/03/oer-2-technical-requirements/ (Resource description)

I’ll also be considering questions of interoperability and a few ideas we are exploring in the context of our ACErep project around the possibility of building value added services on centralised repositories of harvested data.

Slides reviewed below:

Slide 3 – Lightening bio

I’ve included this as my (lack of) professional background in the area strikes me as relevant for good or ill – I’ve only been working with repositories/metadata since October 2007 and everything I have learned has been on the job, so to speak.  I am not a qualified librarian or professional cataloguer (shambrarian at best) and I think this has had both benefits and drawbacks; I am *ahem* unrestricted by formal theory and have also needed to find my way through a great deal of esoteric jargon often to gain some fairly basic understanding   –  ultimately, I think this has necessarily resulted in a pragmatic approach and a willingness to take advice!

Slide 4 – Context – Repository Projects at Leeds Met

Repository projects at Leeds Met, in chronological order, are the Repository Start-up itself, Streamline, PERSoNA, Unicycle, Bibliosight – all funded by JISC – and  our current ACErep project which is funded by HEFCE.

Our repository platform is intraLibrary which uses IEEE LOM metadata.

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Slide 5 – UKOER project – Unicycle

  • Funded under JISC ukoer (phase 1)
  • Develop process by which staff able to contribute to and draw upon a central repository of OER
  • Very granular approach to OER
  • “Resources” rather than “Courseware”
  • Simple Application Profile – ukoer guidelines
  • Mediated deposit
  • Leeds Met repository, Jorum Open and other suitable outlets

Slide 6 – An Application Profile for UKOER

Slide 7 – Mandatory metadata

  • Programme tag – ukoer
  • Author / owner / contributor
  • Date
  • URL
  • Title
  • Technical Information

(Licence info soon became mandatory!)

Slide 7 – Recommended metadata

  • Language
  • Subject classifications
  • Keywords
  • Tags
  • Comments
  • Description

Slide 9 – Example ukoer record

http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/main/view_record.php?identifier=2076&SearchGroup=Open+Educational+Resources

Slide 10 – Interoperability?

  • Leeds Met – intraLibrary (IEEE LOM)
  • JorumOpen – DSpace (Dublin Core)
  • Harvest ukoer projects by RSS (link only)
  • Bulk upload of IMS Content Package (Resource + imsmanifest.xml)
  • Virtual Maths resource in JorumOpen
  • Little point in metadata not supported by Jorum (or is there?)

Slide 11 – ALPS CETL repository project (ACErep)

  • Search across multiple platforms for ALPS resources
  • Download resource from any of the platforms into the working arena of their choice
  • Adapt existing resource to suit local use
  • Deposit original/adapted resource into one or more of the repositories maintained by CETL partners

Slide 12 – ALPS CETL repository project (ACErep)

  • Different software uses different metadata standards/Application Profiles
  • ALPS may require different metadata than UKOER
  • Explicit priority from user group: resources presented in context of specific learning/assessment outcomes
  • Can Jorum accommodate this?

Slide 13 – The solution – Xpert?

Slide 14 – Harvest OAI-PMH/search using Xpert API

Slide 15 – Possible scenario for SWORD deposit


Slide 16 – SWORD and metadata

  • intraLibrary accepts IMSCP by SWORD
  • JorumOpen (DSpace) accepts METS by SWORD
  • Digirep – no SWORD yet (expect IMSCP)
  • LUDOS – no SWORD yet (expect METS)
  • Need to package metadata as IMSCP and METS

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