> __Bid Markers Comments__
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> 1. Usefulness of idea
> Vocabulary management is an issue for organisations and [centralised] initiatives - it is however, much less clear that it is currently an issue or problem for OERs which are released in highly distributed, diverse, and uncoordinated ways. In itself this is a useful idea and lack of mechanisms and tools to manage and share controlled vocabularies more widely is a recognised problem but, even within the library community, it is not clear that there is a consistent demand to reuse vocabularies developed by others (apart from the very large scale controlled vocabularies that operate with their own business models and support structures). On a related note it is potentially unclear what the provenance of existing vocabularies in the proposed system would be, or their relevance to OER.
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> 2. Experience of project team
> Tellura Ltd has highly relevant experience and the outputs of their earlier projects are well regarded. They have also have demonstrated a clear willingness to engage on the list.
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> 3. Demand for outputs
> This project is about managing small localised vocabularies, and assumes that people outside the 'creating' community want to use those vocabularies. As yet there is unclear demand for such a service in the OER environment and, perhaps more widely in JISC. We would like to have seen some more evidence of the demand for vocabularies to be reused. There might be more of a demand from e-content or repositories people, or bigger institutions such as the OU.
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> 4. Is the project achievable?
> Yes, probably.
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> 5. Does the project build on existing work?
> The project builds strongly on existing work. There is a concern, arising from this, that the deliverables seem somewhat focused on extending the existing work rather than building on the outlined investigations of innovative technical approaches.
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> 6. Does the project duplicate existing work?
> Not in the OER space.
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> 7. Technical approach
> The ability to visualise data in innovative ways can result in a step change in the uptake of tools and service. We liked the investigation of cql as a native query language, the investigation of SKOS and a RESTFUL web service approach. It's a solid approach and correctly uses things we'd liked to see used.
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> 8. Quality of proposal
> Very good
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> 9. Fund?
> No. It is, however, a good bid and will be passed on to other parts of JISC in case it is of interest to their efforts (collections/ repositories).
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Lorna M. Campbell
JISC CETIS Assistant Director
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow
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