Dear All
Given that the deadline for mini project proposals is now less than an hour away, please find attached a hastily assembled bid on behalf of Newcastle University, for 'Project 3' - the Open Call.
The document is a bit formal, so as a summary the idea we're putting forward is for an OER Bookmarking tool. For those of you who were at the Hackdays last week, this idea will sound pretty familiar because what we're proposing is extending the work we demoed at the end of that workshop. However, this time we'll be providing a fully featured system (well, a fully featured demonstrator and all the source code) rather than the proof of concept we showed last Friday.
We've tried to think from the start about how other systems will be able to utilise/harvest/add to the data that this system will capture, including the social/user-generated metadata/paradata, and we're going to pilot this side of things with an existing system in place at Newcastle (Dynamic Learning Maps). We've thought a lot about the user experience - making it as easy as possible to get data in and out and providing ways for users to enhance the data (commenting, rating etc). We're even proposing to build in the 'playlists' idea that was suggested to this group last week (which I think is a fantastic idea in its own right).
One thing I should probably stress is that this isn't just a clone of delicious. OER (and licensing in particular) is central to this system. It is an attempt to make it easier for license information about a resource to be discovered and distributed and we hope to do it in such a way that doesn't unduly affect the user experience.
So, over to you. Please let us know whether you think it's a worthwhile (and achievable) project. In our opinion we're proposing something that would be extremely useful and would prove to be very good value for money.
Thanks
Paul
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