[Oer-community] SUSPECT: Re: Metadata for OER and International Open Access Association

[Edward Cherlin]

Speaking for myself and the millions of children I help around the
world, I find no assessment necessary.

No. Just no.

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Pat Lockley
<patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:
> How does an open community assess using metadata that has costs?
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Phil Barker <phil.barker at hw.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 24/11/12 16:54, Stracke, Christian wrote:
>> > MLR is based on DC and OAI and 100% compliant with them (RDF and triple
>> > based) but enriched for learning elements.
>> > And due to its strict rules for implementation and extensions, any
>> > application profile can be developed (by keeping 100% interoperability).
>> > I strongly recommend to use MLR as basis for any system of listing,
>> > mapping and tagging OER.
>> We've certainly come a long way since Dublin Core and IMS LRM. They were
>> free. IEEE LOM will cost you about $100 (though if you Google you'll
>> find the final draft for free).   What's published so far of ISO MLR
>> costs from CHF 98 - 170  per part, so for 10 parts that's well over
>> US$1,000 just to see whether it's useful.  Or is there an open access
>> copy somewhere?
>>
>> Phil Barker
>>
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