Greg Grossmeier, Education Technology and Policy Coordinator for Creative Commons and Co-Chair of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) technical working group, presented a background and update on the project to create a common metadata specification for online learning resources. Grossmeier presented at the Content in Context Metadata Lab, presented by the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) on June 4, 2012.

1. Spec Development
Background

2. The TWG

3. Who?

4. ● Sheryl Abshire, Calcasieu Parish Public School System
● Phil Barker, JISC CETIS
● Kurt Bollacker, Applied Minds
● Brian Carver, UC Berkeley School of Information
● Cable Green, Creative Commons
● Greg Grossmeier, Creative Commons
● Charlie Jiang, Microsoft
● Michael Johnson, Full Potential Associates
● Mike Linksvayer, Creative Commons
● Joshua Marks, Curriki
● Brandt Redd, Gates Foundation
● Colin Smythe, IMS Global
● Stuart Sutton, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
● Randy Wilhelm, netTrekker
● Lee Wilson, PCI Educational Publishing

5. Mutt 1.5.21--[0/486 msgs, 1 postp, 16 inc, 11M]--(=CC/LRMI)

7. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LRMI
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LRMI/Properties

9. Voice, too.

10. greg@x200s:~/Ubuntu One/CC/LRMI/Conference Call Recordings$ ls -alh
total 99M
drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4.0K May 3 21:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 greg greg 4.0K May 23 17:01 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 21M Feb 24 22:48 LRMI-20110817.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 12M Feb 24 22:47 LRMI-20110831.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 42M Feb 24 22:49 LRMI-20111019.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 2.0K Feb 24 22:45 LRMI-20111019-notes.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 26M May 3 21:07 LRMI-20120503.mp3

11. In short...

12. What did it produce?

14. educationalAlignment The competency, learning standard, skill and/or text complexity
that the work is aligned to.
intendedEndUserRole The individual or group for which the work in question was
produced.
educationalUse The purpose of the work in the context of education.
timeRequired Approximate or typical time it takes to work with or through this
learning resource for the typical intended target audience.
typicalAgeRange The typical range of ages the content’s intendedEndUser.
InteractivityType The predominate mode of learning supported by the learning
resource. Acceptable values are active, expositive, or mixed.
learningResourceType The predominate type or kind characterizing the learning
resource.
useRightsUrl The URL where the owner specifies permissions for using the
resource.
isBasedOnUrl A resource that was used in the creation of this resource. This
term can be repeated for multiple sources.

15. Schema.org
Collaboration
Background

16. ● Sheryl Abshire, Calcasieu Parish Public School System
● Phil Barker, JISC CETIS
● Kurt Bollacker, Applied Minds
● Brian Carver, UC Berkeley School of Information
● Cable Green, Creative Commons
● Greg Grossmeier, Creative Commons
● Charlie Jiang, Microsoft
● Michael Johnson, Full Potential Associates
● Mike Linksvayer, Creative Commons
● Joshua Marks, Curriki
● Brandt Redd, Gates Foundation
● Colin Smythe, IMS Global
● Stuart Sutton, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
● Randy Wilhelm, netTrekker
● Lee Wilson, PCI Educational Publishing

17. Not a rubber stamp process.

19. public-vocabs@w3.org
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/

21. Next steps

22. Schema.org timeline.

23. Thank You - Danke (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alicepopkorn/6042091926/) / Cornelia Kopp / CC BY 2.0