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Hi, I think "letting it be hidden" may be a more appropriate phrase. They get buried over time unless someone attaches a flag to them, like avalanche victims. The problem with all online resources is that they need attention to be visible - this may be by Search Engine bots but also by individuals that curate them e.g. my colleague Lisa Featherstone has been exploring Pintrest (http://www.pinterest.com/penguinnotlob/xerte-links/) and many of us use social bookmarking e.g. Delicious.com to tag other examples https://delicious.com/search/xerte so comments against them can be captured. Depositing Xerte links in the JORUM repository would be a valuable way to highlight Xerte resources to the HE community and hopefully FE too e.g. http://find.jorum.ac.uk/find?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=xerte&button= Xerte.org.uk has many examples in the showcase section http://xerte.org.uk/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=&id=&Itemid=698&lang=en but this is not a solution to the problem, which is to have a publishing strategy for the community that could use it, perhaps enhance it. The problem is really that the metadata about learning resources is often inadequate to find them - decent quality descriptive text for search engine robots to use has to be visible somewhere. At least if a repository is used these can syndicate the metadata to each other. Finding 'stuff' is a discipline problem as much as a technical problem. If the all the Xerte servers we know of were on a handy list we could query the RSS feeds too. I have a few projects using Xerte for developing digital literacy in the disciplines and they will be using blogs to point to resources too http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/digital-literacies so a convention to use #xerte or Xerte tags helps. Google blog search yields nearly 7,000 results: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=blg&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=850&q=%23xerte&gbv=2&oq=%23xerte&gs_l=blog-hp.3..0i30l10.6308.7483.0.9037.6.6.0.0.0.0.118.381.5j1.6.0....0...1ac.1.24.blog-hp..0.6.381.0SRIudV1ssE#gbv=2&hl=en&q=xerte&tbm=blg So, to make Xerte resources discoverable there has to be a publishing strategy - perhaps this should be part of an institutional practice, but if the individuals who produce them promote them into communities then their discovery is far more likely. Terry McAndrew Advisor, Jisc TechDis Academic Lead (Digital Literacies), Higher Education Academy T 01904 717580 M 07920 273411 E [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Skype terry.mcandrew Web http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk<http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/> Twitter @terrytechdis, #techdis JISCmail JISC-TECHDIS JISC TechDis, advising the education sector on technologies for inclusion and accessibility. c/o The Higher Education Academy Building, Innovation Way, York Science Park, York, YO10 5BR, UK. TechDis is part of Jisc. From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martin Cooke Sent: 04 November 2013 08:59 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: are we hiding xerte resources My manager was interested in the seven pillars of wisdom resource but she later tried searching for "seven pillars" and the xerte object does not come up on the first Google page. It does come up if you search on >>seven pillars xerte<<. Thanks Lisa! This set me to wondering whether we are hiding our xerte stuff. What do others think? Martin Martin Cooke ILT Advisor Jisc Regional Support Centre East Midlands Loughborough College LE11 3BT 01509618118 www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/eastmidlands<http://www.rsc-em.ac.uk/> Tel: 01509 618118 | Mobile: 07786526189 |Skype: martin.rsc | Web: www.jiscrsc.ac.uk<http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk> -- Scanned by mailCritical in association with Loughborough College Computer Services... Please report Spams that slip through to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> This e-mail along with any attachment(s) is strictly confidential and may contain privileged information. It is intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please do not disclose, store, copy, take any action or omit to take any action in reliance of its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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