[Oer-community] OER mapping - Let's eat our own dogfood

[Ken Allgood]

I'd like to second Ken Udas' recommendation regarding an expansion of the
mapping exercise to include not only the geographical relationships of
initiatives and programs, but to also introduce more robust tagging
approach which supports other meaningful relationships such as reuse,
funding, program or specialty affiliation, etc..

This sort of visualization can support everything from funding & policy
decisions to alignment and prioritization of activities.

Excellent Idea Ken!

Ken Allgood
RDG/SemantixLab


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Ken Udas <ken.udas at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1.   *Would a world map to visualize the global OER landscape be useful?*
>
> Hello - Yes, I believe that this would be quite useful.  I am wondering if
> geographical mapping is just one of many potential visualizations. That is,
> with appropriate tagging of projects, consumers, creators, other
> stakeholders, activities, and artifacts the representations could become
> quite adaptable and useful. For example, patterns of reuse, funding impact,
> and disciplinary contributions could be helpful for practitioners, policy
> makers, and funders.
>
>
> Cheers - Ken Udas
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Tel Amiel <tel.amiel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi all -
>>
>> mapping will be useful (no matter how roughly) because it opens up the
>> OER scenario beyond the well known players and well established projects.
>> it has been incredibly useful for us in brazil to map small and local
>> initiatives and connecting these to larger projects. many times these
>> projects do not gain visibility to others who most need to know of them.
>>
>> i agree with martin that the meso/micro layer is more interesting. i also
>> think that identifying projects in multiple locations
>> (multinational/lingual project) can be fairly easy to do and will clearly
>> demonstrate how much collaboration influences OER work.
>>
>> we do need to define clearly what "fits" in the map (people? projects?
>> repositories? initiatives?) and concurring with wayne, keep the system open
>> to input (and mediated).
>>
>> we have begun listing many projects and repositories in portuguese (
>> http://educacaoaberta.org/wiki) both in brazil and beyond, and would be
>> interested in contributing this material to the mapping initiative.
>>
>> cheers - tel
>>
>>
>> On 13/11/2012, at 00:19, Steve Foerster wrote:
>>
>> > Wayne Mackintosh wrote:
>> >
>> >> * Open data -- for example, all participants contributing to
>> >>  the mapping exercise should dedicate the data to the public
>> >>  domain.
>> >
>> >> * Open licensing of the visualisations - the outputs should
>> >>  be freely available with the 4R permissions.
>> >
>> >> * Open APIs and standards -- contributing data sets which
>> >>    adhere to open APIs and open standards to maximise reuse
>> >
>> >> * Open source -- Where possible to use visualisation
>> >>  technologies which would not exclude users who can't
>> >>  afford non-free software or choose not to sacrifice
>> >>  their freedoms regarding technology choices
>> >
>> >> * Open innovation -- ie where we might promote an open
>> >>  process for the global community to innovate multiple ways
>> >>  to visualise our collective data -- rather than prescribing
>> >>  any particular visualisation.
>> >
>> > These are excellent points.  Any output of such an initiative should
>> > adhere to them.
>> >
>> > -=Steve=-
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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