[Oer-community] Maximum Impact

[rory]

  Mary Lou,
What standard are you following in implementing the metadata for  the 
catalogue? That is quite a job. We could never get three Canadian 
librarians to agree, never mind international ones. Should it be Library 
of Congress or Dewey, or ???
All the best.
Rory

On 10-10-18 4:41 PM, Mary Lou Forward wrote:
> The plan is to have subjects be much more specific to enable more 
> targeted searching and browsing.  For example, humanities would 
> include various disciplines, such as history, which would further be 
> broken down into geographic areas, time periods, etc.  The aim is to 
> have a comprehensive enough catalog/index that the categories would 
> have meaningful differences to enable both general and specific 
> searches (eg. all humanities would have the humanities tag, but 
> History of the Zanzibar Revolution would have specific tags that would 
> easily distinguish it from Philosophers of the 20th Century).
>
> Finding the right level of specificity and the categories that will be 
> valid across different educational systems is an important task of the 
> working group.  The idea is to make this useful and intuitive, 
> providing a framework, but allowing additional tags to be added by the 
> author/producer.   We welcome all input.
>
> Thanks,
> Mary Lou
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Steve Foerster <steve at hiresteve.com 
> <mailto:steve at hiresteve.com>> wrote:
>
>     Mary Lou wrote:
>
>     > First, we are planning to create a global course catalog
>     > of sorts, which will allow all OER housed in different
>     > collections around the world to be tagged with standard
>     > descriptors.
>
>     How will this compare to the catalog at OER Commons?
>
>     http://www.oercommons.org/oer
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     -=Steve=-
>
>
>     --
>     Stephen H. Foerster
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Mary Lou Forward
> OpenCourseWare Consortium
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Rory McGreal
Associate VP Research
Athabasca University



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