OER Syndication

RSS and Atom
RSS and Atom offer web friendly mechanisms to disseminate information about your content. As protocols they are often.

Examples of practice
OpenCourseWare Consortium's suggested practice for RSS feeds lists suggested mandatory channel and item elements.

See also the discussion of including license information in RSS

Feed Deposit?
Feeding repositories - Response to feeding repositories

Position paper on Feed Deposit from JORUM or

Discussion of the above Community bay link OER, RSS, and Jorum Open discussion on Lorna's blog Further discussion On Nick Shepherd's blog (Unicycle project)

see Feed deposit

Education Content Standards
Educational Content Standards

Packaging Standards

 * Content Packaging Specification
 * Common Cartridge working group
 * ADL SCORM The SCORM specification describes more than packaging but in the context of UKOER this is likely to be its primary use

The use of packaging standards in the UKOER programme

 * The use of ADL SCORM in the UKOER programme
 * The use of IMS CP in the UKOER programme

OAI-ORE
Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (primers, user guides and bindings, libraries, data models)

OAI-PMH
What is the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting?

http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2010/03/30/the-use-of-oai-pmh-and-oai-ore-in-the-ukoer-programme/
 * The use of OAI-PMH and OAI-ORE in the UKOER programme