Short answer - No I don't mean that
Long answer
You could be - A person, A librarian, An OER enthusiast, A VLE admin person, A blogger, A subject centre, A repository manager, and you could make a search tool purely for yourself
Provide could mean - via a site, as an API service, via an embeddable block of code, via a URL, via emailed results, via twitter
OER - Open licensed materials
The only difference would be that the creator would take some role in curating the content set
-----Original Message-----
From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott Wilson
Sent: 17 February 2011 16:08
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Subject: Re: An Ideal OER search Engine
On 17 Feb 2011, at 15:46, Patrick Lockley wrote:
> So you want to provide your own OER search facility
Not sure what is meant by "you", "provide" or "OER" here...
Do you mean "So, as a University you want to provide your own search facility for your own content - and those of selected partners - which you market as OER"?
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> Brief Spec
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> You want to choose the sites that are searched
> You want to be able to limit / refine the search by x,y,z
> You want the results to display where? And how?
> Do you want the search to be provided from a URL - say www.google.com/pats_search_tool/?
> Or embeddable as a widget - html for your site?
> Or as both?
> Would you want the search to present data in other ways for other users (so an API could underpin it all)
> Would you want search logs to be maintained
> Would you want results chosen to be maintained
> Embeddable social media in results
> The url could also provide an RSS of all it's content
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> Anything else?
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> Maybe this is a google doc / wiki issue?
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