Here is today's update from the land of the properly catered. I have a
picture of the lunch we got here, which shall now become my minimum
rider. The only thing in the whole meal I couldn't eat was the
mayonnaise sachet, whereas in the UK that would be the meal.

In technological news - the magic coke table was joined yesterday by a
magic cake table. I would suggest buying shares in this technology.

My main focus on day 2 was to come back with something visual and
demonstrable as to what the learning registry could do. Lots of great
work was being done, but a lot of it at a very abstract structural
level which would be hard to demonstrate to an academic without pages
of explanation. The lack of brevity is because I've done a low hanging
fruit joke already.

So I built a browser plugin, which sits happily in your browser doing
nothing, until you go a google search. After doing a google search it
wakes up, and checks every web site google returns. If it finds data
in the learning registry relating to that URL it then adds the data to
the google results page. I would send you a screen shot, but it
appears the dev node for the LR is down, and I also don't know where
print screen is on a mac. Or where the home button is. Or the end
button. Quite a lot of buttons seem to be missing.

So basically. You do a google search and get no educational info back.

Not anymore.

All of the metadata comes back.

Yay metadata! not.

So imagine you are a lecturer searching for content. If the link has
an educational level setting in the metadata, or keywords, then these
are displayed with it.

So your google search is no longer dumb - it can explicitly tell you
which are resources to which there is educational metadata.

It needs some interface pretty pouring over it, but then it'll be
ready for demoing properly and I will let people know.

A lot of stuff was demoed showing searching for services or related
content, or structural changes that offered benefits to people
building services.

My presentation became an anti google rant pretty much.

To summise, I think it's very early days for the system still, but
it's already got half a million or so records in a dev state, and
offers a lot of interesting questions for people with OER pots. The
system is very much still in development, and so this can be guided by
those with interests in it. If you have ideas or comments then two
learning registry email lists exist (Dan could you circulate? I only
have the 1).

Once I've done this email I'm off for a meeting with some of the team
so I can ask any questions that people may have.

I'd like to thank again the event organisers for putting on such a great event.