Hi all,
I've been hacking on the OA project as well, and hopefully some of the work will be coming to fruition relatively soon. One of the things the project tasks, and one which I have been tasked to encourage is how to mark up pages and resources so the attributor tool processes them correctly.
Now, I know what your thinking - crazy RSS man come again to tell us we all do bad. But rest assured, this time no kittens will be harmed and the changes to be made are relatively light and simple. Openlearn's site already does it, and it's likely adding this code into your pages may help Google index resources better as well.
If people are interested, I could show how a page could be marked up to work with the attributor tool? It may also sit as a hack day thing.
Thanks all
Pat
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From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nathan Yergler
Sent: 19 January 2011 23:58
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OERTIG: ideas for the OER Hackdays?
Happy to see Rights and Licenses on the list of possible subjects :).
One thing we're keen to work on are tools that can help people
understand is how to mark their works (directly, in feeds, etc), and
how to test that they've marked it as they expect. We've built a few
throw-aways towards this, but I'd love to work on building something a
little more robust that shows the user as much information as it can
find about a resource. Seems like this could be useful for both
publishers and consumers, and could serve as a nice addition to other
systems where you're consuming licensed works and want people to
understand what they're submitting. Relatedly, I've been hacking on
OpenAttribute (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Attribution_generator)
in my spare time, so maybe there's something related to that which
would be useful to work on.
I've also been poking at log analysis and visualization for CC lately
(visualizing license adoption based on unique referrers to license
deeds and badges, for example), so I'd be into delving further into
that, as well.
I'm currently trying to clear my schedule so I can join the fun in
person, hope to have confirmation on that in the next day or so.
Best,
Nathan
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Phil Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> a week or so ago, CETIS launched the OER Technical Interest Group [OERTIG]
> and announced a two-day developers' workshop/hack days on OER content,
> systems and services [OERHACK]. We would be very interested in discussing
> now the technical issues that people from the OERTIG think could be explored
> during the OER Hack Days.
>
> The idea for the Hackdays is that developers and other people with an
> interest in technical aspects of OER can work together to explore existing
> ways of doing things and experiment on how to improve them. So we need two
> things: a real problem/issue on which some progress can be made in ~24hrs,
> at least at a proof-of-concept level, and the means of working on it--a
> group of people willing to work together, and maybe some code that gives
> them a good starting point.
>
> Some ideas are already bubbling around:
> - Rights and licences: encoding cc-licences, attribution information etc. in
> resources/metadata/feeds; processing them and displaying them in, e.g.
> repositories, feed aggregators, collections, learning environments (see, for
> example, further info: OERCA, below).
> - Web search log analysis. I'll be writing more about that soon, but take a
> look at the CETISWMD meeting summary below.
> - noSQL approaches to handling descriptions of OERs (e.g. US Learning
> Registry looking at CouchDB)
> - Open eTextBooks
>
>
> As I said at the top: we would be very interested in discussion and comments
> about these or any other ideas for the OER Hackdays. Replies to OER-Discuss,
> please . . .
>
> Looking forward to hearing form you, Phil.
>
>
>
> Further info:
> OERTIG
> http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2011/01/06/jisc-cetis-oer-technical-interest-group/
> OERHACK http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/devcsi/oer_hackdays/
> OERCA
> http://e-department.blogspot.com/2011/01/creating-plug-n-play-framework-for-he.html
> CETISWMD http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2010/10/19/cetiswmd-summary/ and
> http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2010/09/23/analysing-ocwsearch-logs/
> US Learning registry http://www.learningregistry.org/
> Open eTextBooks
> http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2010/11/25/open-e-textbook-use-case/
>
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