[Oer-community] Global List of OER Initiatives

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De: oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca
[mailto:oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca] Em nome de Caine, Abel
Enviada: quinta-feira, 22 de Novembro de 2012 18:13
Para: oer-community; oer-forum at lists.esn.org.za;
oer-university at googlegroups.com
Cc: Javiera Atenas
Assunto: Re: [Oer-community] Global List of OER Initiatives

Hi Tel, all

Structure of the UNESCO Directory below.

This Discussion has been excellent in generating ideas for important fields
for both a Directory as well as for capturing mapping data.

It’s been difficult to keep up with all the suggestions so I would greatly
appreciate it if members could please again suggest the fields. To save on
Inbox clutter, you can directly email me at: a.caine at unesco.org. I will
publish the new directory structure on a weekly basis.

I’m setting up the Directory this week on our test server. I’ve received 1
volunteer to help me test it. Let me know if you’d like to join the test
crew.

In the meantime check out the OER Directory
<http://oerqualityproject.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/directory-of-oer-reposito
ries/>  by Javiera Atenas.

Regards,

Abel

UNESCO OER Programme <http://www.unesco.org/webworld/en/oer> 

Details on the Initiative

1.       OER_initative

2.       Initiative_Description

3.       Initiative_website

4.       Initiative_email

5.       Initiative_Scope: Initiative Scope: 

(G)lobal, (R)egional, (N)ational, (I)nstitutional, (P)ersonal

6.       Initiative_type:

(C)ommunity of Practice, (R)epository

7.       License

Details on who owns/manages the OER Initiative

8.       Salutation

9.       First_name

10.   Last Name

11.   Job_title

12.   Personal_email

13.   Organization

14.   Organization_website

15.   Street address

16.   City

17.   Country

Details on when and who added the Initiative to the Directory

18.   Dated Added (to the Directory)

19.   Added by (who added it to the Directory)

From: oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca
[mailto:oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca] On Behalf Of Tel Amiel
Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2012 18:33
To: oer-community
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] Global List of OER Initiatives

hi abel/wayne and all,

now this seems like a promising link to the current mapping project! 

could we begin by looking at the structure of the existing WSIS/OER
directory data and see how it can be expanded/modified for the purposes of
the mapping structure? 

having this structured data openly available would make it quite easy to map
later.

cheers,

tel

On 22/11/2012, at 03:16, Caine, Abel wrote:

Hi Wayne,

Many thanks for complimenting UNESCO. We are definitely supporting the WSIS
KC Platform for quite some time which includes the OER Community and 8 other
active Communities.

The Directory function will support a list of OER Initiatives. This is a top
priority for us and we'll be very actively surveying Governments and OER
stakeholders to upload their data to the Directory.

Mapping the list isn't a top priority. Primarily because we don't have the
budget to link to OSM, and mapping doesn't work for regional or global
initiatives (eg Opportunidad).

We're also working on an email-to-web feature where members can participate
in a Community Discussion via email and have all their posts automatically
appear on the web. We hope this increases the interactivity in the
Community.

So right now, UNESCO can commit to supporting the WSIS KC Platform
(especially with the huge 2013 WSIS event coming up in Feb
www.unesco.org/wsis2013), openly licensing the Platform, and building the
Directory and email-to-web functions.

If anyone has OSM expertise, we'd love to work with you, on a volunteer
basis, to link the mappable data in the Directory to OSM.

Regards,

Abel

Sent from my iPhone

On 22 nov. 2012, at 05:58, "Wayne Mackintosh" <mackintosh.wayne at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi Abel, 

Thanks for the update - the directory function is going to add value
considerable value to the WSIS OER community.

Susan asked earlier who should host a global mapping initiative.

Frankly, I can't think of an agency better placed than UNESCO to host a
project like this:

*	The WSIS platform is open source
*	You've identified a pathway to visualise data using the
OpenStreetMap project 
*	UNESCO is custodian of the 2012 Paris OER Declaration
*	You're going to migrate to a CC-BY license

Would UNESCO be able to host a global mapping initiative like this? Keeping
fingers crossed for a positive response.

Wayne

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Caine, Abel <a.caine at unesco.org> wrote:

To all,

UNESCO has just developed a new Directory function for the OER Community on
the WSIS KC Platform.

http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/groups/14358/open-educational-resources-oer
/

We're currently testing it and will then upload our (now dated) list of over
400 global OER Initiatives.

http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/file/read/17061/global-list-of-oer-initiati
ves

The OER Directory will (of course) be open for anyone to freely upload their
initiative, and export the data to their own application. The Directory
would feature strong search capability (by type, name, country, language,
etc). We were considering linking our database to an OpenStreetMap for
visualizing the data.

In the future, we'll have an API that allows another system to easily
extract the data for display in their own application.

We are very shortly openly-licensing the entire WSIS KC Platform (CC BY) to
legally allow user uploading/sharing.

We would greatly appreciate any volunteers to help us stress-test the
Directory.

Regards,

Abel

Sent from my iPhone

On 21 nov. 2012, at 21:47, "Susan D'Antoni" <susandantoni at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Colleagues, 

If we are to consider the appropriate organization for creating a list of
all OER Institutional initiatives, Alma's message points to an approach that
might be appropriate for the OER community at large (not just our group).  

She spoke of "crowdsourcing" - using a form on the web page for submission
of information by individuals..  

If we were to start to create a simple database (that could create a list or
a visual map) - aiming at a comprehensive list of institutional projects for
a start, could the information be collected and checked locally or
regionally, as one message suggested?

Best,

Susan

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Alma Swan <a.swan at talk21.com> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

Thank you, Susan, for introducing Leslie and myself. We are happy to tell
you a bit about our Open Access Map and how we conceived the project. The
map is at www.openaccessmap.org <http://www.openaccessmap.org/> 

We wanted to create a visual representation of how Open Access is
progressing globally. A geographical map seemed the most appropriate way to
represent OA (though we will be adding a timeline when we get a bit more
funding). Our aim was to crowdsource the venture, so individuals can submit
the details of their own project, journal, repository, service, etc. We have
an editorial step, where Leslie or myself approves the submission: often
these need a bit of correction, checking or chasing up, so it is not
labour-free. I’m just saying that in case you envisage doing something
similar. The most common thing that needs completing is the georeference of
the submission: despite the submission page having boxes for latitude and
longitude, and a link to a service that provides these things for each
city/town in the world, many submitters leave this step out – and this
service they want to be represented on is a map! Ah well...

As well as the public submissions, we draw data (daily) from a number of
registries, such as the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR), the
Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR), ROARMAP ( list of OA
policies) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). 

The data in the Map can be re-used by anyone to do research or build new
services. We think we’ve achieved a fairly complete representation of the
infrastructural elements that support progress on OA. We know, though, that
projects are not well-represented on the Map. This means that the record is
missing many of the temporary or transient initiatives that have been
important in forging progress.  This is a shame in the sense that the Map is
not able to provide a really complete picture of effort towards OA, but that
is an aspiration that is rather unrealistic anyway.

Hope this is helpful in providing a snapshot of our little venture.

Alma

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