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- Task Force on Applied Media in Teaching and Learning (TF-Media): 25 June, 2012
- Task Force on Applied Media in Teaching and Learning (TF-Media): 21 September, 2012
- Task Force on Applied Media in Teaching and Learning (TF-Media): 22 October, 2012
- 4th technical meeting: to be planned...
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- As it can be seen from the results, the automatically harvested metadata has poor quality. Not sufficient for a pan-European aggregation portal purposes. It has been proofed and agreed that extensive metadata analysis, common metadata set agreement and engagement with the repository owners (i.e. providers) is needed.
- ARIADNE is only a specification and a set of protocols; a software stack to harvest and index metadata. It has a GoogleSerach-like user interface at the moment.
- The modular architecture helps to add new services to the portal easily.
- Peter (TERENA) said that the initial idea was to compare the MAOR-based and ARIADNE-based implementations, evaluate them with the criteria of a pan-European portal in mind, and implement the TERENA OER pilot portal based on the wining platform. Eli and Giannis commented that the two tools can even be combined as some of the features can nicely complement each other.
- Eli said that e.g., ARIADNE can be used to harvest metadata automatically from the internet (open PMH targets, YouTube channels) while MAOR can be used to harvest metadata from the national repositories engaged with the portal.
- It was agreed to dedicate the next coming meeting of the group to the discussion about how the two platform implementation can be combined.
- Peter (TERENA) will set up the next meeting and send out the open invitation to the TF-Media group.
- After the meeting Michael Stücheli (SWITCH) contacted Peter and offered to harvest metadata from the SWITCHcollection repository. Michael, Eli and Giannis were put in touch.
- Metadata information exposed by SWITCH is at https://test.collection.switch.ch/oaiprovider/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=chor_dc
- In the meantime, Eli and Giannis will try and harvest good quality metadata for both portal implementations from Greece (GRNET), Israel (IUCC), and Switzerland (SWITCH) national repositories.
- Peter (TERENA) will write a news item about the TERENA OER portal pilot and invite other national repositories to participate.
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Minutes (22 October 2012)
Date and time
Monday, 22 October 2013, at 10-12am CET
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1) What is the purpose of the TERENA OER portal initiative? (The motivation and the high-level architectural issue)
Fundamental questions must be clarified in a white paper about:
- how we can be different form others;
- what kind of repository we are proposing;
- what objects we are collecting;
- what tools we are planning to use;
- who the target user community is;
- how this initiative can be positioned in the context of global and other national activities
- and so on...
AGREEMENT
A paper must be drafted that summarizes the basic principles behind the TERENA OER portal initiative, gives a high-level view on the problem space in a European/global context, as well as define a common language, system architecture, and framework for recommendations. Potential issues must be addressed by the paper are:
- Dealing with multiple languages
- Understanding the users' requirements
- Supporting national repositories (with knowledge and tools)
- Aggregation of open materials
- Flexible metadata schema
- Focus on easy-to-use tools and procedures
- Understanding on existing metadata and practices already available in the community
The paper can then be agreed and presented at LAK2013 (April 2013, in Leuven Belgium) and TNC2013 (June 2013, in Maastricht, Netherlands)
ACTION 1 on Eli Shmueli (IUCC) to draft a paper (bullet points are sufficient to start with) and circulate it on the mailing list. Others are invited to contribute.
2) TERENA OER pilot implementation (The technical issue)
Proof of Concept metadata harvesting from SWITCHCollection to the MAOR test portal has been done.Look at the URL below:
Lessons learned: it is technically possible, but there are issues with both a) the metadata quality and b) the openness of content.
Other metadata to harvest:
- Vicente Goyannes (Uni Vigo) offered Campus do Mar: http://tv.campusdomar.es/oai.xml
Gytis Cibulskis (Kaunas University of Technology) offered ViPS records archive
The next steps we should take are:
- Start small with sharing and aggregating of (fully) open materials
- Look around what other projects do (in Europe, Brazil, etc.) not to reinvent the wheel.
- Promote the use of the European portal and involve in global initiatives.
AGREEMENT
A deep technical dialogue must be started among the portal technology developers (MAOR, ARIADNE), the national repository owners (SWITCHCollection, Campus do Mar, Kaunas University, etc.) and the university people representing the end-user community. The discussion should include topics as follows:
- Metadata schema for aggregation, mapping, translation, etc.
- Potential functional integration of ARIADNE (as an aggregator) and MAOR (as a portal)
- Tools, protocols, procedures, implementation options.
ACTION 2 on Peter Szegedi (TERENA) to Doodle for a technical meeting as soon as possible.
3) Mini-survey about metadata (The metadata issue)
Concerns have been shared by the attendees about the finding of good quality metadata, the willingness of content owners to improve metadata, and about the aggregation of metadata in an easy way.
AGREEMENT
University people participating in TF-Media must be our anchors in the community to figure out what's going on in this field at the national/institutional levels. What kind of metadta is generated, how that existing metadata can be exposed, what tools are there for aggregation/harvesting, etc.
ACTION 3 on Giannis Stoitsis (GRNET) to draft some questions for the mini-survey and circulate them on the mailing list. After agreement, the final set of questions can be sent to the national/institutional repository owners as well as to the academic community for gathering answers.
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