I'd have done it for Xpert, but as we are a Nottingham funded service now it didn't feel right (to me at least) for us to provide that service while a national service existed (not having a dig). We're also never sure if we have the right to share links we've been given - are RSS Feeds copyrightable - and so is the distribution of them a protected act?

Chris T asked about whether we'd put all of Xpert in OER Recommender - and we don't feel at all comfortable in doing so, so we haven't, but if people want to use Xpert to do so with their own content, we'll happily help.

I'd agree with your blog's content about how on the JISC site they all say they'll use RSS, and then you try and find the RSS and it's like searching for a needle in a haystack. Especially when I can go to so many American Unis and find tonnes of stuff all made available by RSS really easily.

Remember that I've got an almost pathalogical addiction to finding OER RSS feeds, so if I gave up on your site, I bet most users gave up a few days before me (I even built a screen scrape to RSS Feed generator for some sites if it had enough content)

-----Original Message-----
From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Phil Barker
Sent: 10 March 2011 16:20
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: UKOER Sources

Hello all,
Several people have asked for a listing of UKOER[1] sites, RSS feeds, 
other "interoperability end points" etc. Despite protesting last year 
that I didn't think that a third party directory/registry is a good 
idea[2], I have listed all that I can find: see  
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/UKOER_sources  Yes there are lots of gaps, but 
the relevant projects have seen this page and had the chance to tell me 
about anything I missed (and can do so if they wish).

I've also written a blog post reflecting on how it was harder than it 
should have been to find this information and what projects could do to 
make it easier: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2011/03/10/ukoer-sources/

All the best, Phil.


[1] or worse, all OER sites.
[2] http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2010/11/01/registries/

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