LRMI/CFP - Revision history

Mike Linksvayer at 20:37, 18 July 2011

2011-07-18T20:37:42Z

Mike Linksvayer at 23:10, 12 July 2011

2011-07-12T23:10:18Z

Mike Linksvayer: /* Prospective timeline (2011-2012) */

2011-07-12T15:32:45Z

‎Prospective timeline (2011-2012)

Mike Linksvayer: average of 4/week not realistic

2011-07-12T15:27:28Z

average of 4/week not realistic

Mike Linksvayer at 14:55, 12 July 2011

2011-07-12T14:55:20Z

Mike Linksvayer at 15:59, 30 June 2011

2011-06-30T15:59:13Z

Mike Linksvayer: /* Prospective timeline */

2011-06-30T15:52:41Z

‎Prospective timeline

Mike Linksvayer at 15:52, 30 June 2011

2011-06-30T15:52:11Z

Mike Linksvayer: Created page with "
This article is a DRAFT.
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRM..."

2011-06-30T15:30:37Z

Created page with "<div style="border: 1px dashed #06f; margin: 0.5em auto 1em; padding:1em; margin-left:2em">This article is a DRAFT.</div> The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRM..."

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<div style="border: 1px dashed #06f; margin: 0.5em auto 1em; padding:1em; margin-left:2em">This article is a DRAFT.</div>

The [[LRMI|Learning Resource Metadata Initiative]] (LRMI) to create a common metadata vocabulary for describing learning resources is seeking the participation of education metadata experts to participate in a technical Working Group (WG; high time commitment) and a technical Advisory Group (AG; lower time commitment) over the next 6-12 months.

Spurred by the growing need to make online learning resources more discoverable and the opportunity created by the launch of schema.org (a Bing/Google/Yahoo! project to develop and encourage use of metadata vocabularies which can be used to enhance search results), LRMI has been formed. Its goals, in brief:

* Document an abstract vocabulary representing the most common descriptions of learning resources used by existing educational metadata standards (e.g., LOM), by online publishers of learning resources (whether a machine-readable vocabulary is used or not), and addressing the contemporary desire to link learning resources to learning outcomes (e.g., ASN).

* Create a concrete expression of the abstract vocabulary for use within the schema.org hierarchy. Given this deployment target and the motivation to increase discoverability, utility for enhancing search queries and results will be a desired property for each term in the abstract vocabulary.

* Create a concrete expression of the abstract vocabulary as RDF, for interoperability with other applications and existing vocabularies. This drives another desired property for abstract vocabulary terms -- to mirror the semantics of existing education matadata vocabularies to the extent possible, so that explicit equivalences and refinements may be established, protecting existing investments in educational metadata made by publishers and curators of learning resources and by institutions to date.

* Liaise with search engines, learning resource publishers, communities, and repositories, and other potential distributors and consumers of education metadata (e.g., LMS vendors, National Learning Registry) to promote adoption and impact of the vocabulary.

* Explain the impact, value, and use cases of a common education metadata vocabulary to the general public, decision-, and policy-makers.

In order to ensure that LRMI hits a "sweet spot" of addressing real learning resource publishing practices, the requirements of search engines, and interoperability with existing education metadata (and hence achieves widespread adoption by publishers, repositories, and search and other application developers), we require the active engagement of experts in the field. Thus we are issuing this Call For Participation at two levels of commitment:

* ''Working Group'': Participate in researching and writing LRMI vocabulary and expressions. Tentatively weekly teleconferences, two face to face meetings. Commitment averages 4hrs/week over 6-9 months.

* ''Advisory Group'': Provide feedback on Working Group drafts and as requested. Possibility of participating in key teleconferences. Commitment averages 1hr/week over 6-9 months.

LRMI's work will occur in public. One does not need to participate in the Working or Advisory groups to follow, comment on, and contribute to LRMI. All interested parties are encouraged to join the LRMI Google Group/mailing list at https://groups.google.com/group/lrmi/

Please direct interest in Working or Advisory group participation privately to ml@creativecommons.org, or if you wish, to the public mailing list.

We ''strongly encourage'' interest from around the world. Educational metadata efforts have historically arisen from various parts of the world, and improving discoverability and interoperability of learning resources is truly a worldwide challenge and opportunity.

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 The [[LRMI|Learning Resource Metadata Initiative]] (LRMI) to create a common metadata vocabulary for describing learning resources is seeking the participation of education metadata experts to participate in a technical Working Group (WG) over the next 6-12 months.
-Spurred by the growing need to make online learning resources more discoverable and the opportunity created by the launch of schema.org (a Bing/Google/Yahoo! project to develop and encourage use of metadata vocabularies which can be used to enhance search results), LRMI has been formed. Its goals, in brief:
+Spurred by the growing need to make online learning resources more discoverable and the opportunity created by the launch of [http://schema.org schema.org] (a Bing/Google/Yahoo! project to develop and encourage use of metadata vocabularies which can be used to enhance search results), LRMI has been formed. Its goals, in brief:
-* Document an abstract vocabulary representing the most common descriptions of learning resources used by existing educational metadata standards (e.g., LOM), by online publishers of learning resources (whether a machine-readable vocabulary is used or not), and addressing the contemporary desire to link learning resources to learning outcomes (e.g., ASN).
+* Document an abstract vocabulary representing the most common descriptions of learning resources used by existing educational metadata standards (e.g., [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_object_metadata Learning Object Metadata]), by online publishers of learning resources (whether a machine-readable vocabulary is used or not), and addressing the contemporary desire to link learning resources to learning outcomes (e.g., [http://asn.jesandco.org/ Achievement Standards Network]).
 * Create a concrete expression of the abstract vocabulary for use within the schema.org hierarchy. Given this deployment target and the motivation to increase discoverability, utility for enhancing search queries and results will be a desired property for each term in the abstract vocabulary.
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 * Create a concrete expression of the abstract vocabulary as RDF, for interoperability with other applications and existing vocabularies. This drives another desired property for abstract vocabulary terms -- to mirror the semantics of existing education matadata vocabularies to the extent possible, so that explicit equivalences and refinements may be established, protecting existing investments in educational metadata made by publishers and curators of learning resources and by institutions to date.
-* Liaise with search engines, learning resource publishers, communities, and repositories, and other potential distributors and consumers of education metadata (e.g., LMS vendors, National Learning Registry) to promote adoption and impact of the vocabulary.
+* Liaise with search engines, learning resource publishers, communities, and repositories, and other potential distributors and consumers of education metadata (e.g., Learning Management Systems vendors, National Learning Registry) to promote adoption and impact of the vocabulary.
 * Explain the impact, value, and use cases of a common education metadata vocabulary to the general public, decision-, and policy-makers.
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 LRMI's work will occur in public. One does not need to participate in the Working or Advisory groups to follow, comment on, and contribute to LRMI. All interested parties are encouraged to join the LRMI Google Group/mailing list at https://groups.google.com/group/lrmi/
-Please direct interest in Working group participation privately to ml@creativecommons.org, or if you wish, to the public mailing list.
+Please direct interest in Working group participation privately to lrmi@creativecommons.org, or if you wish, to the public mailing list.
 We '''strongly encourage''' interest from around the world. Educational metadata efforts have historically arisen from various parts of the world, and improving discoverability and interoperability of learning resources is truly a worldwide challenge and opportunity.
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 ===Prospective timeline (2011-2012)===
-July 12:
+July 18:
 :publish CFP
 August 1:

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	The [[LRMI\|Learning Resource Metadata Initiative]] (LRMI) to create a common metadata vocabulary for describing learning resources is seeking the participation of education metadata experts to participate in a technical Working Group (WG) over the next 6-12 months.		The [[LRMI\|Learning Resource Metadata Initiative]] (LRMI) to create a common metadata vocabulary for describing learning resources is seeking the participation of education metadata experts to participate in a technical Working Group (WG) over the next 6-12 months.

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 :announce initial WG
 :first WG teleconference
 late August/September:
 :first WG F2F
-:request AG feedback on findings re existing education metadata vocabularies
+:request domain expert and list feedback on findings re existing education metadata vocabularies and real world use
 September
-:publish findings on existing metadata vocabularies
+:publish findings on existing metadata vocabularies and real world use
-:request AG feedback on first rough draft of abstract vocabulary
+:request domain expert and list feedback on first rough draft of abstract vocabulary
 October
 :publish first draft of abstract vocabulaary
-:request AG feedback on schema.org and RDF expression first rough draft
+:request domain expert and list feedback on schema.org and RDF expression first rough draft
 November
 :second draft of abstract vocabulary; release candidate pending bugs found in developing schema.org and RDF expressions

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 In order to ensure that LRMI hits a "sweet spot" of addressing real learning resource publishing practices, the requirements of search engines, and interoperability with existing education metadata (and hence achieves widespread adoption by publishers, repositories, and search and other application developers), we require the active engagement of experts in the field. Thus we are issuing this Call For Participation:
-:'''Technical Working Group members wanted to participate in researching and writing LRMI vocabulary and expressions. Tentatively weekly teleconferences, two face to face meetings. Commitment averages 4hrs/week over 6-9 months. This is a volunteer commitment. However, we do have funding for travel to face to face meetings if required.'''
+:'''Technical Working Group members wanted to participate in researching and writing LRMI vocabulary and expressions. Tentatively weekly teleconferences, two face to face meetings. Commitment averages 2hrs/week over 6-9 months. This is a volunteer commitment. However, we do have funding for travel to face to face meetings if required.'''
 LRMI's work will occur in public. One does not need to participate in the Working or Advisory groups to follow, comment on, and contribute to LRMI. All interested parties are encouraged to join the LRMI Google Group/mailing list at https://groups.google.com/group/lrmi/

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 <div style="border: 1px dashed #06f; margin: 0.5em auto 1em; padding:1em; margin-left:2em">This article is a DRAFT.</div>
-The [[LRMI|Learning Resource Metadata Initiative]] (LRMI) to create a common metadata vocabulary for describing learning resources is seeking the participation of education metadata experts to participate in a technical Working Group (WG; high time commitment) and a technical Advisory Group (AG; lower time commitment) over the next 6-12 months.
+The [[LRMI|Learning Resource Metadata Initiative]] (LRMI) to create a common metadata vocabulary for describing learning resources is seeking the participation of education metadata experts to participate in a technical Working Group (WG) over the next 6-12 months.
 Spurred by the growing need to make online learning resources more discoverable and the opportunity created by the launch of schema.org (a Bing/Google/Yahoo! project to develop and encourage use of metadata vocabularies which can be used to enhance search results), LRMI has been formed. Its goals, in brief:
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 * Explain the impact, value, and use cases of a common education metadata vocabulary to the general public, decision-, and policy-makers.
-In order to ensure that LRMI hits a "sweet spot" of addressing real learning resource publishing practices, the requirements of search engines, and interoperability with existing education metadata (and hence achieves widespread adoption by publishers, repositories, and search and other application developers), we require the active engagement of experts in the field. Thus we are issuing this Call For Participation at two levels of commitment:
+In order to ensure that LRMI hits a "sweet spot" of addressing real learning resource publishing practices, the requirements of search engines, and interoperability with existing education metadata (and hence achieves widespread adoption by publishers, repositories, and search and other application developers), we require the active engagement of experts in the field. Thus we are issuing this Call For Participation:
-* '''Working Group''': Participate in researching and writing LRMI vocabulary and expressions. Tentatively weekly teleconferences, two face to face meetings. Commitment averages 4hrs/week over 6-9 months.
+:'''Technical Working Group members wanted to participate in researching and writing LRMI vocabulary and expressions. Tentatively weekly teleconferences, two face to face meetings. Commitment averages 4hrs/week over 6-9 months. This is a volunteer commitment. However, we do have funding for travel to face to face meetings if required.'''
 LRMI's work will occur in public. One does not need to participate in the Working or Advisory groups to follow, comment on, and contribute to LRMI. All interested parties are encouraged to join the LRMI Google Group/mailing list at https://groups.google.com/group/lrmi/
-Please direct interest in Working or Advisory group participation privately to ml@creativecommons.org, or if you wish, to the public mailing list.
+Please direct interest in Working group participation privately to ml@creativecommons.org, or if you wish, to the public mailing list.
 We '''strongly encourage''' interest from around the world. Educational metadata efforts have historically arisen from various parts of the world, and improving discoverability and interoperability of learning resources is truly a worldwide challenge and opportunity.
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 ===Prospective timeline (2011-2012)===
+July 12:
 :publish CFP
-July 26:
+August 1:
-:announce initial WG and AG
+:announce initial WG
 :first WG teleconference
 late August/September:

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	* '''Advisory Group''': Provide feedback on Working Group drafts and as requested. Possibility of participating in key teleconferences. Commitment averages 1hr/week over 6-9 months.		* '''Advisory Group''': Provide feedback on Working Group drafts and as requested. Possibility of participating in key teleconferences. Commitment averages 1hr/week over 6-9 months.
		+
		+	These are volunteer commitments. However, we do have funding for travel to face to face meetings if required.

	LRMI's work will occur in public. One does not need to participate in the Working or Advisory groups to follow, comment on, and contribute to LRMI. All interested parties are encouraged to join the LRMI Google Group/mailing list at https://groups.google.com/group/lrmi/		LRMI's work will occur in public. One does not need to participate in the Working or Advisory groups to follow, comment on, and contribute to LRMI. All interested parties are encouraged to join the LRMI Google Group/mailing list at https://groups.google.com/group/lrmi/