On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Scott Wilson
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> On 6 Apr 2012, at 16:56, Pat Lockley wrote:
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>> I think turning the ramanathan or Jeffrey Hill's LRPHP (see github)
>> into an API would be really simple, but I am unsure of what the best
>> publishing policy is? If it's metadata packaged up, I would guess we
>> should delete our metadata package before we add a new one - but that
>> seems open to conjecture? Also if we submit paradata, is it per act,
>> or per month, and do we maintain a core paradata package with all the
>> data in?
>
> I've been working on a Java lib for publishing and synching LR paradata, specifically ratings (reviews and downloads still to go): for ratings I've assumed one paradata record per rating on the assumption that ratings and comments go hand in hand so its worth keeping them as individual records with actor-measure-subject. However I can also see the case for doing summaries (e.g. "in our store this app has an average rating of 3.2 from a sample of 43 ratings") so will probably add some support for that too.
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> In any case I have to filter to remove earlier updates, e.g. see:
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http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/spaws-initial-code-hands-on-with-the-learning-registry/
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> Code is at:
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>
https://github.com/scottbw/spaws
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> (& in sonatype snapshots repo for all you Maven fans)
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> Putting this lib behind a web API would be pretty easy if you wanted to. I guess the main value-added is the de-duplication and filtering.
>
> S
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>>
>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Julian Tenney
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>>> What would be really helpful for us is a leg-up with the technology side of
>>> things. What we would like to do is add some pages to our example at
>>>
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560 to ask users to rate the
>>> resource, maybe comment on it and then push that info into the LR. What we
>>> would really like is some easy method of doing that, I’m thinking about some
>>> simple API call I can make. I have Pat’s ‘post data to the LR’ php code, but
>>> it would be much simpler for me to call a service, and I think for others
>>> too. We could also explore publishing a resource into the LR from toolkits,
>>> again an API to call would make this easy, and would facilitate building
>>> other tools by which data can be added to the node, be them widgets, gizmos,
>>> whatever,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:
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>>> Behalf Of Sarah Currier
>>> Sent: 03 April 2012 10:03
>>> To:
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>>> Subject: JISC OER RI projects working with the JLeRN on Learning Registry
>>> stuff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> See below for link to (and text of) JLeRN blog post on OER Rapid Innovation
>>> projects working with JLeRN and/or the Learning Registry.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Had a brief chat with Suzanne Hardy at the end of the Programme Meeting last
>>> week about what might help these projects, and any others interested in
>>> JLeRN / The Learning Registry.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you please shout if (a) you have an OER RI (or any OER) project
>>> interested in this stuff and I haven’t mentioned you in the blog post, and
>>> (b) if you have an idea of what might be helpful for you to move on with
>>> this aspect of your project.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Suzanne and I were just thinking, maybe a kick-off virtual meeting of some
>>> kind (with CETIS input too).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Sarah Currier [mailto:
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>>> Sent: 03 April 2012 09:55
>>> To: Sarah Currier
>>> Subject: Fwd: Some new UK-based JISC projects working with the JLeRN on
>>> Learning Registry stuff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Sarah Currier <
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>>> Date: 3 April 2012 09:54
>>> Subject: Some new UK-based JISC projects working with the JLeRN on Learning
>>> Registry stuff
>>> To:
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>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For those who don't follow the JLeRN blog, thought you might be interested
>>> in these new JISC-funded projects (blog post
>>> here:
http://jlernexperiment.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/jlern-and-the-jisc-oer-rapid-innovation-projects/ ).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Text of post here:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> JLeRN and the JISC OER Rapid Innovation Strand
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The HE Academy / JISC OER3 Programme‘s new Rapid Innovation strand projects
>>> kicked off last week in London at the Programme Meeting. We are thrilled
>>> that there are four projects within the strand who want to work with us on
>>> Learning Registry related developments.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> With only four months left for JLeRN, we want to make the most of the time
>>> we have, and participating in well-thought-out projects meeting real
>>> requirements in the OER space seems like a good way to consolidate what
>>> we’ve learned so far. All of these projects involve folk who supported us by
>>> coming to the Hackday in January and the CETIS Conference Learning Registry
>>> session in February so it’ll be nice to give something back.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The four projects we are working with are as follows (NB: There were a few
>>> other sparks of interest in the OER Rapid Innovation projects’ breakout
>>> session, so I think we may pick up a few more along the way: don’t be shy to
>>> get in touch if you’d like to work with us):
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rapid Innovation Dynamic Learning Maps-Learning Registry (RIDLR)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Based at Newcastle University, and led by Simon Cotterill, this project will
>>> build on their Dynamic Learning Maps work, and their FavOERites social
>>> bookmarking project, to develop “open APIs to harvest and release paradata
>>> on OER from end-users (bookmarks, tags, comments, ratings and reviews etc.)
>>> from the Learning Registry and other sources for specific topics, within the
>>> context of curriculum and personal maps.”
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sharing Paradata Across Widget Stores (SPAWS)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Based at Bolton University (with partners KMi (Open University); IMC AG,
>>> Saarbruecken; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and led by Scott
>>> Wilson, this project will use the Learning Registry infrastructure to share
>>> paradata in the form of user views, reviews and ratings about educational
>>> widgets across four existing widget stores.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Xerte Experience Now Improved: Targeting HTML5 (XENITH)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Based at Nottingham University (with partners JISC TechDIS, EDINA and Mimas
>>> (us!)), and led by Julian Tenney, this project builds on the Xerte Online
>>> Toolkits, which integrates directly with the Xpert Repository. As an adjunct
>>> to its main development work, it will explore sharing metadata and paradata
>>> about Xerte resources with the Learning Registry.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Track OER: Tracking Open Educational Resources
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Based at the Open University, and led by Patrick McAndrew, this project aims
>>> to “develop software that can help track open educational resources” as they
>>> are used away from their point of origin. JLeRN has already entered
>>> discussions with them to ensure mutual affordances are identified.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In addition to these projects, the University of Liverpool will soon be
>>> working with the JLeRN team to set up their own node. As well as assisting
>>> with meeting Liverpool’s requirements, this will enable JLeRN to experiment
>>> with sharing data between nodes at different locations. Work with Jorum will
>>> continue, and discussions have begun with the JISC Resource Discovery
>>> Programme to widen the reach of the Learning Registry concept. Watch out for
>>> blog posts on all of these activities!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers all, comments and questions welcome: the blog post has project links
>>> in it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
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