[Oer-community] A reflection

[Phil Barker]

Hello Fred, everyone
LRMI isn't specifically for OERs. It extends schema.org in order to 
describe some educationally relevant properties of a resource. There is 
a nod to OER in that it allows a link to/URL for the licensing 
conditions to be expressed, which provides a way in for stating that a 
resource is available under a creative commons license. LRMI doesn't 
stand alone; it only makes sense as a part of schema.org, and schema.org 
certainly makes provision for describing paid for resources.


I agree those other metadata schema would work equally well for open or 
not open resources, assuming agreement on how to express the CC licences 
could be reached, however (in my view) the Rights category of the LOM 
wasn't well developed.

Phil

On 15/11/2012 01:32, Fred M Beshears wrote:
...
> Of course, there is at least one OER meta data initiatives underway already:
>
>     Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)
>     see: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LRMI/FAQ
>
> And there may be other OER metadata initiatives that I'm unaware of.
> Also, some people may be aware of older metadata and learning
> technology initiatives such as:
...
> IMS Global (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMS_Global)
> IEEE   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_object_metadata)
> ISO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_JTC1/SC36
>
> The IEEE/LOM standard could, I believe, work for Educational Resources
> whether they are open or not. So, I need to do some research to
> understand why there's a need for a separate LRMI metadata spec
> initiative.
>

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