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Hi Pat, Not sure if these are questions you're asking the LR or questions for us. :-) My 2 cents: 1) you'd probably end up building something with some of the same functions as a repository to support some of the management, metadata creation and preservation side of the stuff a repo does. I guess the question back would be how much of that side of things could be also actually be disaggregated into multiple lightweight tools. [wonder if repo community are thinking about this] 2) what sort of services? Do you mean providers offering support for students/staff (eg openstudy?) or 'function' type services - forums, vles, media players? If you're thinking of vle like things i'd like to see ways to get some md/pd out of less formal systems as well. E.g. use of content in wordpress (in the same way the oerbital folk are worked on md/pd out of mediawiki). It would also be interesting to think about how some content types fit into this model - eg open textbooks which might lack some of the coordinating infrastructure / tracking that commercial digital textbooks have. 3) no particular opinion yet about what else might be useful apart from - don't overly increase barrier to entry; use existing standards, don't cram new types of info into your spec if appropriate standards exist already; though that prompts a question: do you need soem note of what types of md are available (i need to go back and read the Lr/ paradata spec to see how this is currently handled) 4) as a resource creator i'd want to interact with whatever i sue to manage stuff anyway and have that interact with LR; personally i think resource creators (eg desktop sword) interacting with the LR breaks the model - there's no use -related data/ context of use. Does that make sense? john R. John Robertson skype: rjohnrobertson Research Fellow/ Open Education Resources programme support officer (JISC CETIS), Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement University of Strathclyde Tel: +44 (0) 141 548 3072 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/ The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC015263 -----Original Message----- From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley Sent: 17 June 2011 12:48 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: LR questions Here are some starters for ten 1) Do you still need a repository - can you build what you need around the LR and some files on a website? 2) Where can you think of services providing links to elearning content being deployed? What tools would you like? 3) What paradata and metadata would you find useful (for example no geodata at the moment is stored)? 4) How would you like to add your resources to the learning registry?