OER Description

Overview
This section gathers information about the standards and other approaches that might be relevant to OER description. It provides sources of information about the standards and gathers examples of descriptive practice in the UKOER programme and elsewhere. It covers issues such as relevant standards, tagging, bookmarking, vocabularies, and licensing. The related issue of SEO for OERs is discussed Search Engine Optimisation for OERs.

The programme outlined the base descriptive requirements: Metadata Guidelines for the OER Programme

Describing resources

 * What information might you include in the resource itself?
 * OER resources and self-description
 * What is metadata and resource description?
 * About metadata and resource description Part 1
 * About metadata and resource description Part 2
 * Comparing metadata requirements in a wider context of OER work
 * OER metadata for different aggregators
 * OER metadata and 2nd Tuesday discussion of information needs
 * OER metadata - final thoughts and outstanding issues


 * Discoverability
 * OCWC wiki notes on discoverability

Overview of metadata

 * Introductory Guides to metadata
 * Slides from UKOER introductory session on resource description and metadata

Metadata for educational resources

 * Educational Metadata standards
 * Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008 (Sarah Currier's article in Ariadne)

The CETIS MDR SIG provides a focus for everyone interested in the process of describing and sharing learning resources.

Dublin Core

 * DCMI Education update (2008)
 * What is Simple Dublin Core? (part1)

IEEE LOM

 * What is IEEE LOM? CETIS Briefing Paper
 * IEEE LOM Update
 * UK LOM core home page

The use of metadata in the UKOER programme

 * The use of Dublin Core metadata in the UKOER programme
 * The use of IEEE LOM in the UKOER programme
 * The use of IMS QTI in the UKOER programme

Relevant Vocabularies

 * Level, course, audience
 * possibly UKEL?
 * possibly XCRI?
 * JACS
 * Tagging
 * Role of tagging
 * Programme tag: UKOER

Tagging, bookmarking and web2.0 services

 * Andy Mcgregor and Brian Brooks have written a guide to using web2.0 services in JISC projects
 * Guide to using some web 2.0 services in JISC projects - part 1 of 3
 * Guide to using some web 2.0 services in JISC projects - part 2 of 3
 * Guide to using some web 2.0 services in JISC projects - part 3 of 3

Examples of descriptive practice from projects

 * Institutional Strand projects
 * Dublin Core U-Now RSS feed
 * Mapping of UK LOM core to DC Terms (Open Exeter)
 * OpenSpires / Steeple consideration of metadata and mapping to multiple export formats
 * Unicycle's exploration of metadata
 * Initial considerations
 * metadata for OERs within discussion of OpenSearch implementation


 * Subject Strand projects
 * A work example of thinking about resource description from the Engineering Subject Centre Project Resource description for Engineering OERs