*DCMI/ASIS&T webinar with Phil Barker & Lorna Campbell of Cetis, UK*
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*Join DCMI/ASIS&T for our joint November webinar:*
--*Title: **The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative, describing learning
resources with schema.org <http://schema.org>, and more?*
--*Date: *19 November, 2014
--*Time:* 10:00am-11:15am EST (UTC 15:00) World Clock: http://bit.ly/1pKiCUj
--*Event webpage:*
http://dublincore.org/resources/training/
or
https://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-DCMI-11-19-2014-register.html
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*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a collaborative
initiative that aims to make it easier for teachers and learners to find
educational materials through major search engines and specialized resource
discovery services. The approach taken by LRMI is to extend the schema.org
ontology so that educationally significant characteristics and
relationships can be expressed. In this webinar, Phil Barker and Lorna M.
Campbell of Cetis will introduce schema.org and present the background to
LRMI, its aims and objectives, and who is involved in achieving them. The
webinar will outline the technical aspects of the LRMI specification,
describe some example implementations and demonstrate how the
discoverability of learning resources may be enhanced. Phil and Lorna will
present the latest developments in LRMI implementation, drawing on an
analysis of its use by a range of open educational resource repositories
and aggregators, and will report on the potential of LRMI to enhance
education search and discovery services. Whereas the development of LRMI
has been inspired by schema.org, the webinar will also include discussion
of whether LRMI has applications beyond those of schema.org.
*SPEAKERS:*
*Lorna Campbell* has worked in the domain of open education technology and
interoperability standards for over fifteen years and has contributed to
the development of a number of learning resource metadata specifications.
Phil and Lorna were commissioned by Creative Commons to manage the third
phase of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. LRMI is co-led by
Creative Commons and the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP)--now
the 501(c)(3) arm of the Association of American Publishers.
*Phil Barker* is a research fellow at Heriot-Watt University who has worked
supporting the use of learning technology in Higher Education for twenty
years. For much of this time he has worked with Lorna M. Campbell as part
of Cetis. His work focuses on supporting the discovery and selection of
appropriate resources, and he has contributed to the development of a
number of learning resource metadata specifications. He was on the
technical working group of the learning resource metadata initiative and
has since worked on the third phase of LRMI promoting its uptake and use.
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*For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:*
*DCMI:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/
or
*ASIS&T:*
https://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-DCMI-11-19-2014-register.html
