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Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design (delOREs)

This project will create static and dynamic collections of university-level Open Educational Resources (OERs) and other openly available resources relevant to Engineering Design. Doing this will...

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

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Standards

Standard	Comments
RSS
OAI-PMH
Dublin_Core
OAI_DC

Technologies

lucene
Waypoint
Wordpress
PHP
Sux0r

Comments:

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 14:21:18

Intent is to include any type of OER resource - if textual will attempt to include textual content in full text search/ Waypoint index (to improve recall [&granularity] )

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 14:16:56

There are a number of resources that the project maybe able to release into the static collection - these may also be represented in JorumOpen

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 14:12:29

such a plugin is primarily focused on creating an RSS for resources generating plugin; costs and time permitting a similar plugin may be developed for OAI-PMH / OAI-dc

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 14:10:30

such a plugin will be made freely available under a suitable license; note: this plugin would be of use to CETIS

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 14:09:12

once spec'ed this development will be contracted out to an experienced commercial developer

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 14:08:06

development of wordpress plugin to support the creation of a plugins for wordpress to create metadata/rss about resources rather than about posts

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 14:06:08

Initial classification of content at high level (based on course descriptions) but then also run at a more detailed level of granularity (based on resource descriptions)

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 14:05:45

Developing metadata in wordpress widget

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 14:03:35

Filter of sources to restrict subject domain helps reduce false matches in Waypoint (Sux0r will handle this filtering - tested Waypoint with manual filter)

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 14:02:03

Test of Waypoint against 1000 OERCommons resources against test classification scheme

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 14:00:18

Sux0r as rss feed aggregator and Bayesian filter

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 13:59:09

Souces: UKOER, OCWC, Journal TOCs, OERCommons, Xpert; have also looked at wikimedia commons

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 13:58:02

BFF api sends rss feed to Waypoint

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 13:58:01

Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA, or CC-BY-NC) licence for any project-created content

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 13:57:47

classification can be modified as seen fit/ on the fly (can classify 10-100 000 records an hour so easy to change)

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 13:55:58

waypoint uses lucene to index doc (structured xml) then uses constraint-based classification to associate content with nodes in the classification scheme (can be faceted); lucene also supports free text search

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 13:55:30

easy to adapt tools to work with any subject domain which has a specialist detailed classification scheme

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 13:49:52

Wordpress chosen as it uses rss, and has a lot of other possible extensions - dc, oai-pmh, etc

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 13:49:05

Static collection using wordpress - OERs as blog entries

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 13:45:06

Also builds on EPSRC projects

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 13:44:47

Builds on Bayesian Feed Filter project: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/bayesff/