Platform checklist for UKOER resources

Overview: What is the scope of the platform, are there any sugnificant limitations? Important technical aspects include metadata, syndication feeds and API availability as they relate to the UK OER programme requirements.

Formats and Standards
What file formats and standards does the service use for upload and download. Are there any limitations on file size? Either in terms of byte-size or, where appropriate, extent (e.g. pixel dimensions of images or length of video).

API
What is available: REST, SOAP; implementations in common languages?

How is authentication handled--OAuth?

What functionality is available, e.g. is it GET only or can resources be uploaded and edited? (How: APP? SWORD?)

Feeds
What syndication feeds are available?

In what formats?

At what level of granularity? e.g. per-resource, per-user, per-aggregation or group (see above).

Metadata
Summarise how the UKOER metadata requirements are handled by the service. Include human readable descriptions (web pages), syndication feeds, and other means such as API access and embedded microformats. Make note of any limitations, assumptions or questionable practices.

Other metadata
Any other observations on metadata, for example use of automatically extracted metadata from file.

Anything not covered in table above.

Collections and Grouping
Within the service, what are the facilities for aggregating resources (e.g. as albums, photostreams, channels) and grouping people?

How might these be relevant to a OER project? For example, could resources from a single course be aggregated?

Content export & embedding
In what formats can the resources be got from the service?

What options are there for embedding a presentation of the resource from the host service into third-party web pages? e.g. copy and paste code snippets, Flash players etc.

Visibility on Search Engines
How visible are resources on this service on Google, MSN/Bing or Yahoo? (Try searching for something like "bridge", do resources from the service appear highly ranked?)

Usage stats for resources
What information is available about use of resources hosted on service? and how it can be harvested

UKOER
Are any UKOER projects using the service?

Others
Are any other major OER initiatives using the service?

Notes and comments
Anything else.