Presentation on the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) for #Cetis14

2. LRMI:
What on Earth Could Justify Another
Attempt at Educational Metadata?
Lorna M. Campbell and Phil Barker

3. LRMI, #cetis14, 17-18 June 2014
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative

4. Agenda
• Cetis’ involvement with LRMI, who funds it, what’s it for –
Lorna.
• Technical introduction to schema.org & LRMI – Phil.
• Build your own custom search engine! – Phil et al.
• Coffee break
• Overview of implementation projects – Lorna
• Jorum LRMI implementation – Ben Ryan, Jorum
• Overview of other implementations – Phil
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5. What on Earth Could Justify Another
Attempt at Educational Metadata?
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6. A. The world needs more educational
metadata standards.
B. We love educational metadata.
C. We are gluttons for punishment.
D. All of the above.
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8. How much does Cetis love educational
metadata standards?
This much….
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9. First there was…the LOM
Learning Object
Metadata
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10. First the was…the LOM
Learning Object
Metadata
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11. First came … FAILTE Metadata Guidelines
• 2001.
• Facilitating Access to Information on Learning
Technology for Engineers.
• JISC DNER project.
• EEVL, EASIT-Eng, LTSN-Eng, (not Cetis).
• Jenny Slater, Loughborough University and
Phil Barker, Heriot Watt University.
• Based on Dublin Core and IMS Meta-Data.

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13. Then came … RLLOMAP
• 2003.
• RDN / LTSN LOM Application Profile.
• Andy Powell, UKOLN and Phil Barker, Heriot
Watt University.
• IEEE LOM.
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14. Meanwhile… the UK Common Metadata
Framework
• JISC eXchange for Learning (X4L)
Programme metadata profile.
• Developed in 2003.
• Lorna M. Campbell, CETIS and Gerry
Graham, Learning and Teaching
Scotland.
• Based on IMS Meta-data.
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15. Which morphed into…UK LOM Core
• 2003.
• UK Learning Object Metadata Core.
• By Lorna M. Campbell, and Phil Barker,
CETIS and Gerry Graham, Learning and
Teaching Scotland.
• Based on IEEE LOM / IMS Meta-data.

16. Copyright © David Kernohan, #Eduprog Grand High Mage.

17. At the same time…IMS LRM
• 2002 - 2006.
• IMS Learning Resource Meta-data.
• Best Practice Guide by Lorna M.
Campbell and Phil Barker, CETIS and
many others.
• Bindings and best practice for IEEE LOM.
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18. Copyright © 2006 IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

19. Not forgetting…DC-Ed
• 2006 - 2011.
• Dublin Core Education Application
Profile Task Group.
• Focused on defining resource classes
and domain model.
• Also worked in collaboration with IEEE
LTSC

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21. A brief flirtation…ISO MLR
• 2008 - 2009.
• ISO Metadata for Learning Resources.
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22. Which brings us back to…LRMI
• 2011 - 2014.
• Learning Resource Metadata Initiative.
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23. What is LRMI?
• Learning Resource Metadata Initiative.
• Co-led by Creative Commons and the
Association of Education Publishers
(AEP).
• Funded by Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation.
• Currently in third and final phase of
funding.
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24. How did Cetis get involved with LRMI?
• 2011 - Phil Barker responded to the
open call to join the Technical Working
Group in.
• 2013 – Cetis and Heriot Watt University
sub-contracted by Creative Commons to
manage LRMI.
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25. Why did Cetis get involved with LRMI?
• A new and interesting approach to learning
resource metadata.
• Open and transparent working processes.
• Highly relevant to OER discovery.
• Related to work with Learning Registry.
• We’re gluttons for punishment.

26. But what does LRMI do?
LRMI aims to make it easier for teachers
and learners to find educational materials
through major search engines and
specialized resource discovery services.
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27. How does it do that then?
LRMI has extended the schema.org
ontology in order to allow the description
of educationally important properties of
resources to be marked-up in web pages
in a manner that is easily understood by
search engines.
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28. But what’s schema.org?
Schema.org is a joint initiative by Google,
Yahoo, Microsoft Bing, Yandex and W3C
that aims to help search engines interpret
information on web pages to improve the
display of search results, making it easier
for people to find the information they
are looking for on the web.

29. So how does LRMI relate to schema.org?
LRMI has added properties to schema.org
to describe items of type CreativeWork.
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30. And these properties are?
• educational alignment
• educational use
• interactivity type
• is based on url
• learning resource type
• time required
• typical age range
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31. Now over to Phil for more techy stuff on
schema.org and LRMI.
(He really does love metadata you know…)
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32. Licence
LRMI: What on earth could justify another attempt at
educational metadata?
By Lorna M Campbell, lorna.m.campbell@icloud.com
of Cetis http://www.cetis.ac.uk is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence
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