- Metadata tagging based on LRMI, - Following a mutually accepted minimum set of metadata attributes from LRMI, - Practical approach, pre piloting for addressing possibilities before developing a final profile. Participants tagging their own resources and sharing results and experiences. - Strong support, all major publishing companies, public content providers, television stations, LMS providers, and other Edtech companies - Under the auspices of the National Learning Committee, Standards Norway (SNK/186) - Educational alignment to the national Curriculum is at the core of the participants testing

1. Metadata tagging based on the Learning Resource Metadata
Initiative (LRMI)
- a Norwegian pilot project

2. Brief Introduction to the pilot project
● Metadata tagging based on LRMI
● Following a mutually accepted minimum set of metadata attributes from LRMI
● Practical approach, pre piloting for addressing possibilities before developing a final profile. Participants
tagging their own resources and sharing results and experiences.
● Strong support, all major publishing companies, public content providers, television stations, LMS providers,
and other Edtech companies
● Under the auspices of the National Learning Committee, Standards Norway (SNK/186)
● Educational to the Curriculum is at the core of the participants testing

3. Background
● The Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education established an initiative to strengthen the Standards Norway committee for
learning technology in 2012.
● Digital learning resources was given a priority in the new mandate for the committee
● Feedback from public and private organizations and companies, different reports and discussions all concluded that lack of an
modern framework for metadata where critical important for further development for the whole educational sector
● NORLOM did never get a strong foothold in Norway (NORLOM is the norwegian application profile of the IEEE Learning Object
Metadata specification)

4. Approach
• The committee wanted a practical approach – NOT a theoretical discussion towards
a new application profile
• Participants (content providers) tagging their own resources and sharing results and
experiences.
• There was a general agreement on keeping things as simple as possible.
The following Objectives and Scope was agreed one

5. Objectives
Main objective :
● Make it easier for teachers, students, parents and others to search, find and make use of relevant resources
● Make expansions of attributes eg establish attributes that will support access to resources for students with special needs
● By establishing a common framework increase trust for the quality of learning resources ( licensing, owner, for what user etc)
Market perspective
● Basis for metadata directories
● Unlock recourses from silos
● Facilitate EdtTech vendors who develop tools and solutions for the education sector
● Facilitate small companies and startups in edtech
● International- By use of international standards and metadata; Building foundation for an world wide approach for educational
soulutiones

6. Scope
● Open and web-based digital learning resources accessible to crawler- and indexing
engines
● Static metadata (metadata for publishing)
● Metadata according to the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)
specification, and embedded with formats JSON-LD or RDFa
● Digital learning resources addressing the K-12 curriculum and within a predefined
range of subjects and education levels
● (Optional) testing and development based on Google Webmaster Tools and Google
Custom Search (and API)

7. The broader Scope
Dynamic metadata such as social metadata and activity data
(but not a part of phase 1)
The pilot do not take into consideration
– business models
– Licencing
– whether we should have a national repositories , directories etc

8. It's all about pegs

9. ...and keeping order in drawers

10. -The national curriculum
database /
API
Grep

11. SOAP
(WS)
Odata
(REST)
REST-
formats
Topic
Map
SPARQL end point
BackendFrontend
availableinseveralformats
http://data.udir.no/kl06
machine-readable
data model
(OWL)
ETAQ42015

12. -The national curriculum
database /
API
Educational Alignment
Grep

13. ISO/IEC 19788
MLR
LRMI
New ISO-std:
"Curriculum"?
schema.
org
LOD cloud
<dl vocab="http://schema.org/" about="http://www.skolementor.no"
typeof="CreativeWork">
<dt>Educational alignment:</dt>
<dd property="educationalAlignment" typeof="AlignmentObject">
<span property="alignmentType" content="teaches">Teaches</span>,
<span property="educationalFramework" content="grep">Grep</span>,
<span property="targetDescription">Læreplan i norsk</span>,
<span property="targetName" content="NOR1-05">NOR1-05</span>,
<a property="targetUrl" href="http://data.udir.no/kl06/NOR1-
05">http://data.udir.no/kl06/NOR1-05</a>
</dd>
<dt>Educational use:</dt>
<dd property="educationalUse" content="refleksjon">Refleksjon</dd>
10

14. LRMI
in
schema.org
LOD-cloud
Norwegian-Danish language development
Grep

15. Future work
Conclude and report on the practical testing
Consider development of an application profile
Consider activity on dynamic metadata

16. Contact information
Eva Mjøvik
The Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education
http://iktsenteret.no/english
http://www.standard.no/en/sectors/ikt/laringsteknologi/
Are Mjølsnes
The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training
http://www.udir.no
http://data.udir.no/kl06