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Great Writers Inspire: Learning from the Past

This project will collect and release inspirational digital learning content that supports the theme “Great Writers Inspire – Learning from the Past”. The project will provide a new set of key lectures from world-class academics, access to over a thousand downloadable electronic texts and ebooks, plus background contextual resources including a blog of scholarly posts to support the lectures and ebooks

	100% complete Project Completed Funding period:October 2011 to October 2012 Source:		Organisations: University of Oxford
	Tags: Academy/JISC Open Educational Resources Programme Phase 3 Digital Repositories OER Open Technologies UKOER

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Builds on	Comments
OpenSpires: Open content at Oxford University
Triton
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Sesame
PublishOER	Aslo working with publishers

Standards

Standard	Comments
MPEG-4
MP3
H.264
.epub
ePub2
RSS

Technologies

Drupal	being used to build portal/delivery thing (used already by podcasts.ox.ac.uk)
iTunesU

Comments:

Posted by philb at 2012-01-12 09:56:23

Are looking at automatic transcript generation. Speech to text.

Posted by philb at 2012-01-12 09:56:04

Tracking: have an interest in this

Posted by philb at 2012-01-12 09:55:45

Licence info in metadata. Also on presentation/delivery platform. Also in embedded in resource. (probably in ID3 tags also)

Posted by philb at 2012-01-12 09:55:26

Licensing: determined by source. A/V will have same cc licence as providing service (BY-NC-SA), text stuff is mostly PD, new stuff may be CC-BY.

Posted by philb at 2012-01-10 13:41:49

May put resources into HumBox / Jorum

Posted by philb at 2012-01-10 13:41:22

RSS for content (probably by media type)

Posted by philb at 2012-01-10 13:39:41

(Drupal) Less about commenting on resources than bringing together, packaging/glueing them together and disseminating stuff from various sources through various channels. Wordpress site can be used for academics to discuss what they're doing.

Posted by philb at 2012-01-10 13:33:20

Ebooks in epub2, from TEI marked-up files

Posted by philb at 2012-01-10 13:32:53

Audio in mp3, 128kb/s Video in MPEG4 H.264 codec

Posted by philb at 2012-01-10 13:32:13

Two ways in, through specific author and through topic e.g. 18Cent writes.

Posted by philb at 2012-01-10 13:27:51

uses drupal rather than WordPress so that it can link into framework used by podcasts.ox.ac.uk

Posted by philb at 2012-01-10 13:26:22

Builds on previous non-JISC projects at Oxford, notably Oxford Text Archive http://ota.oucs.ox.ac.uk

Posted by philb at 2012-01-10 13:23:38

http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/greatwriters/ is project management page
http://writersinspire.wordpress.com/audio-video-ebooks/ is working copy of resources,
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/greatwriters is output copies.

Posted by johnr at 2011-12-01 14:25:09

Twitter: @writersinspire

Posted by johnr at 2011-12-01 13:56:09

"An audio-enhanced version of the text"; " an ebook plus performance of an Elizabethan play";

Posted by johnr at 2011-12-01 13:54:13

"There will be a concentration on textual materials with embedded illustrative audio and video together with new publishing methods that include a substantial set of material released as ebooks for mobile devices."