LRMI Implementation

Creative Commons is funded to work with up to 10 OER platforms and registries to implement LRMI metadata. The goal is not only to get 10 quality implementations ready but also to develop a suite of best practices references for others wishing to do the implementation themselves.

The main deliverables will be documented on this page, including mappings.

LRMI Implementations Projects

During Phase 2 of the LRMI Project, Creative Commons was funded to work with up to twn OER platforms and registries to implement LRMI metadata. The goal was not only to get ten quality implementations ready but also to develop a suite of best practices references for others wishing to implement the specification themselves. Most of these implementation projects have now been completed and during Phase 3 of the LRMI Project Creative Commons and Cetis will be synthesising the outputs of these projects and developing a series of cases and associated materials.

Connexions, William Marsh Rice University

Connexions, now OpenStax CNX, was launched in 1999 at Rice University to provide authors and learners with an open space where they can share and freely adapt educational materials such as courses, books, and reports. Today, OpenStax CNX is a dynamic non-profit digital ecosystem serving millions of users per month in the delivery of educational content to improve learning outcomes. Tens of thousands of learning objects called pages, are organized into thousands of textbook-style books in a host of disciplines, all easily accessible online and downloadable to almost any device, anywhere, anytime.

Mappings

Mappings are created to "map" the LRMI specification to the currently in-use metadata schema on each platform or registry. This enables the platform to do an automatic conversion to LRMI without the need of much human intervention.

Mappings currently available:

• Connexions: .ODS , .XLS
• Mapping Curriki ↔ LRMI (Google Drive)
• CourseSites (.PDF)
• Gooru Learning (.ODT)
• MERLOT (.xls)
• MIT OpenCourseWare (PDF)
• OER Commons (PDF)