[Oer-community] summary/support for mapping

[Mary Lou Forward]

Thank you to Susan for pulling together this opportunity for exchange of
ideas and to everyone for their contributions.  The summary below sounds
very good, and we are happy to support it going forward.

Mary Lou

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Mary Lou Forward
Executive Director
OpenCourseWare Consortium
www.ocwconsortium.org

To summarize some of the points that seemed to have some consensus:****

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1   Free and Open Source Software, such as Open Street Map, should be used**
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2   A definition is needed for OER initiatives/projects to be captured
initially****

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3   A format for capturing single institutional initiatives, consortia,
networks, etc.****

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4   Data could be collected for each OER initiative 1) on a form (such as
the Open Access form <http://www.openaccessmap.org/#oa_popup_add>) and 2)
drawn from various registries and other sources.****

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5   Limited information should be collected to allow 1) viewing the
initiative web site for information and 2) connecting with a person for
further information/collaboration:****

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       OER Initiative name****

       OER Initiative web site****

       Contact person name****

       Contact person email****

       Latitude and Longitude****

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6   Organization might follow the model of the Global Open Access Map with
a point of coordination and crowdsourcing the information through
interested/willing groups.****

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Best,****

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Susan****
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