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Triton

Triton brings Oxford politics closer to the subject community - The project will widen the availablity of Open Content Resources (OER); content that is available for reuse and redistribution by third parties globally, provided that it is attributed to its creator.

	100% complete Project Completed Funding period:September 2010 to August 2011 Source:		Organisations: University of Oxford
	Tags: e-Learning programme OER Open educational resources programme phase 2 UKOER UKOER

Related Projects

Builds on	Comments
OpenSpires: Open content at Oxford University
Built on by	Comments

Discovering Collections of Social Science Open Educational Resources	building on their Wordpress development as starting point
Great Writers Inspire: Learning from the Past
Sesame
See also	Comments
Opening up Resources for Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences
Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design (delOREs)	possible collaboration around wordpress plugin development around custom rss
Ripple: OER cascade

Standards

Standard	Comments
MPEG-4
RSS
RSS 2.0
OPML
MP3
Dublin_Core
W3C_Widgets
Atom
.epub

Technologies

Wordpress
Joomla
Yahoo Pipes
FriendFeed
Google Analytics

Comments:

Posted by johnr at 2011-08-25 14:02:52

Triton appears to have developed or adapted/ selected an extensive collection of wordpress plugins to work with the inspires site as apart of the project [details to follow]

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 11:37:26

CC-license : BY SA - for blog posts

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 11:30:20

"Packaging pathways materials for reuse through JorumOpen" - creating subsets of content, possibly incorporating some OpenLearn content as well

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 11:27:49

Google analytics on blog, focus group with politics students

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 11:23:47

Note: WP19 " Investigate transfer formats –Wordpress to XML, PDF ,Ebooks (Reading List formats?) etc"

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 11:22:32

Using Xpert attribution tools/ widget- to encourage use images in blogs with hardcoded license

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 11:21:34

Will investigate other plugins to share content; have had an initial look at JorumOpen widget

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 11:16:30

Had a look a Folksemantic wordpress plugin http://www.oerrecommender.org/ but not yet integrating/ evaluated

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 11:13:37

Widget should be adaptable for any restful web services able to produce an rss feed of a query string - eg drupal

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 11:03:05

interested in collaboratively developing Google Custom Search over list of OER sources (directories/ repositories)

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 11:01:25

Browsable set of podcasts in the domain will be built into blog as well

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 11:00:29

Gets feed from Xpert - process not hard-wired to politics easily adjustable for other domains. Source of feed customisable

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 11:00:00

gpl version of widget will be released shortly. it will have search target built into preferences

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 10:59:13

some variability in results depending on how common terms are

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 10:57:34

WP plugin for Xpert api running in developer version of WP. tailoring alogrithim to tweak results (-> UK , good data, course coded) ties into fixed set of categories (20-30) tied into course modules. also tags for people, dates etc,

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 10:55:16

Aiming to ingest/ surface/ visualise different collections of OER materials from the wider community (including stuff from OpenSpires)

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 10:53:39

Using wordpress templates to host a variety of widgets, templates, and tools and draw in OER content around the blog posts from the politics departments

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 10:49:45

Although the project is at Oxford, the politics blog is a high profile joint initiative between Oxford University and Cambridge University.

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-07 12:46:59

Projects- builds on Steeple, Ensemble. see also: Xpert and Xerte; Puffbox

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-07 12:45:07

Interest in APIs to OER content repositories ( such as JorumOpen, Xpert, OER recommender),and developer technical days to allow experts to meet and discuss integration opportunities

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-07 12:42:48

Two key tech developments? - integration of learning pathways into wordpress and auto-aggregation/suggestion of relevant OERs

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-07 12:39:14

project plan: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning/Triton%20projectplanREDACTED.pdf

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-07 12:36:20

"Lightweight aggregation of content from other OER sites via feeds."

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-07 12:35:19

Tracking and SEO?