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Our ww1 site - http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ Has a resource library - http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/resource-library/ and this we added visits and likes as a feature So we are now providing an activity stream from it - http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/?feed=activity_stream On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Adam Hyde <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > hi > > Thats kind of amazingly interesting...looking forward to your session and > dev8ed very much! If you have time maybe we can meet for coffee before - > will keep an eye out for you. > > > adam > > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Suzanne Hardy > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Hi Adam >> >> I am pleased that our request to do any session immediately after you has >> been accommodated by the programme team at Dev8Ed :) >> >> There are five of us from the PublishOER UKOER3 project (who are also >> involved in two OER RI projects, RIDLR and SupOERGlue) attending Dev8Ed, >> including a couple of developer colleagues from Elsevier (James Outterside, >> Dan Plummer, Suzanne Hardy, Graham Isaacs and Raul Balesco). >> >> There is more information about PublishOER >> (http://www.medev.ac.uk/ourwork/oer/publishoer/) , RIDLR and SupOERGlue >> (http://www.medev.ac.uk/blog/oer-rapid-innovation-supoerglue/2012/mar/8/oer-rapid-innovation-supoerglue-and-ridlr/) >> on our website. >> >> PublishOER (UKOER3 project): We are working with publishers and JISC >> Collections to explore new business models enabling risk free incorporation >> of published materials into OER (including development work for centralising >> a business process for dealing with permissions requests to publishers, >> publishing to multiple publication formats from single source, dealing with >> multiple licences, etc) >> >> Additional technical development work (SupOERGlue & RIDLR OERRI projects) >> will extend Newcastle University's novel Dynamic Learning Maps (see >> https://learning-maps.ncl.ac.uk) system, will enable creation of resource >> mashups using OER bookmarking (http://oerbookmarking.ncl.ac.uk/) and OER >> Glue (http://www.oerglue.com/) from within the learning environment, and >> sharing of contextually rich curriculum related meta and paradata about >> learning resources via API/JLeRN to other users including publishers/HEIs. >> The Newcastle team develops with Django and Python. Other languages are not >> barriers to working with us. >> >> We are particularly Interested in working with others e.g. >> Booktype: working with multiple publication formats and multiple authors >> University of Edinburgh: congruence between DLM >> (https://learning-maps.ncl.ac.uk) (Newcastle) and COM:MAND >> (https://command.mvm.ed.ac.uk/) (Edinburgh): curriculum mapping systems, >> sharing resource meta/para/activity stream data, >> JLeRN /Learning Registry harvesting/syndication >> Anyone interested in permissions management systems >> Publishers and new publication business models. Solutions to dealing with >> multiple licences within ePub2 & 3 and other publication formats. >> >> We have put a rough set of ideas we are interested in working on (see blog >> post at >> https://www.medev.ac.uk/blog/suzannes-blog/2012/may/24/dev8ed-publishoer-ridlr-supoerglue-come-and-talk-to-us/), >> but are very open to working on other ideas over the course of Dev8Ed. >> >> >> Looking forward to seeing others in Birmingham next week. >> >> All the best >> >> >> Suzanne >> >> >> >> -- >> Suzanne Hardy >> Senior Advisor (Information) >> MEDEV >> School of Medical Sciences Education Development >> Newcastle University >> >> email: [log in to unmask] >> direct line: +44 191 246 4550 >> mobile: 07790 905657 >> fax: +44 191 222 5016 >> blog: www.medev.ac.uk/blog/suzannes-blog/ >> web: www.medev.ac.uk/ >> Twitter: twitter.com/hea_medev >> Skype: glitt3rgirl >> >> Visitors please come to 1-2 Claremont Terrace, NE2 4HH >> >> On 17 May 2012, at 11:02, Adam Hyde wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Just a quick email to say Im looking forward to Dev8ed and will be >> present to talk about online collaborative textbook production. >> >> I'll present a lightening talk in the morning on Tuesday and then >> Tuesday afternoon from 13.30 - 14.30 I will host a workshop looking at >> the open source project Booktype - what it does, the use cases and >> infrastructure. As such it will be useful to both developers and those >> wanting to use the system to produce open textbooks. We have quite >> some success with open textbook production since our launch in >> February and have solved some big ticket OER issues like content >> federation, bi-directional text output, and inputting and rendering >> complex equations in books. So if you have any needs in this area then >> the workshop might be interesting for you. >> >> Booktype also has a renderer that is a separate code base and >> generates book formatted pdf, epub, mobi, odt, templated html etc - >> this could also be useful to other open source projects so I'm very >> happy to talk about possible collaborations on this or highlight how >> it might be useful for your own work. >> >> I'm especially interested in talking to anyone about collaborating on >> related projects or collaborating on the dev of Booktype or the >> renderer (Objavi). We are looking to build a consortium of OER >> projects to develop Booktype to meet the needs of orgs needing to >> produce textbooks using Booktype so if anyone would like to discuss >> this I would be very happy to buy the first coffee ;) >> >> http://www.booktype.pro >> https://github.com/sourcefabric/Booktype >> >> >> adam >> mobile :+ 49 177 4935122 >> >> >