1. Analysis of Learning Resource Metadata Records
I too was hoping to be surprised by an interesting project. But in my mind I was picturing something akin to what Norm Friessen did in his studies for CanCore. Honestly, I wasn't expecting to see much new...most people use title and description, very few of the other fields get used whether they be DC or LOM.
So, if someone proposed an analysis, and we got similar results to what's already been done, where would we be?
But I think one of the points of the call was to encourage someone to really think outside the box. So I had a hope to see something interesting
2. Search Log Analysis
I too am interested in Search Log analysis, but I don't have access to the technical expertise right now to do much about it for the sums involved.
For example, I could get all of MIT OCW's logs--but then I'd need to process hundreds of gigabytes if not terabytes of data. Yes, we could do a pilot on a month's worth of data. In fact we've discussed that internally, but I haven't had the chance to write up anything around it.
Brandon
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Daniel Rehak
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So I'll start a response, and it's for both projects.
1. Do you think these projects are not important, or not of value to your community or institution?
No, I think they are both important, but I like #1 more than #2. But in the bigger scheme of things, they are the same -- looking at the data we have available and making sense of it.
2. Do you think these projects are not achievable?
As pilots, very achievable
3. Do you think these are interesting projects but didn't know how to approach them?
I know what I would do
4. Do you lack the skills or resources to undertake projects of this kind?
As a one person team, maybe not enough mashup programming skills to make get everything done that I would envision in the solution
5. Were you put off by the bidding procedure?
No
6. Were you put off by the level of funding?
No
7. Did you just not get round to writing a proposal?
In part. Also in part since these are close to Learning Registry ideas, I was hoping someone else would take an independent view on them and provide some wonderful new insights.
If you have any other comments or suggestions regarding this call please do let us know.
So I'll be candid -- in my view, the submissions were pretty main stream in terms of how they view the repository and content ecosystem; not to say that this is bad. As I noted before, I was hoping to see something completely unexpected come forth as ideas. So I do wonder if #1 and #2 are outside of people's current comfort zones and models of how the ecosystem works.
- Dan
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