On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Ian Piper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 19 Apr 2011, at 10:42, Alex Fenlon wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Surely by imposing a specific format of resources on people you are reducing
> the amount of resources available and therefore placing artificial
> restrictions on what OERs are? The joy of openness is anyone can release
> anything and third parties can create a version is a new format, provided
> they follow the licence terms.
>
> I don’t think we should be dictating what formats should or should not be
> used.
>
> Well, you have put your finger on one reason why effective tagging of
> content is so important. Tagging of content objects with high-quality
> vocabularies makes the format more or less irrelevant.
Until you have mobile and non-mobile versions. Then you need to worry.
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