Contents: | Contact details: TF-Media mailing list is at <tf-media@terena.org> TERENA PDO The contact person for this activity is Peter Szegedi <szegedi@terena.org>
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Motivations
The TERENA task force TF-Media (2010-2013) concluded with a project plan to try and implement a European-level OER metadata repository service for the benefit of the Research and Education community gathered under TERENA/GÉANT. The fundamental principles of such a platform/service have been discussed and summarised by the task force.
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The main motivation for developing a metadata repository (European-level aggregation point or referatory) and an OER portal (federated single access web front-end) service would be to support the NRENs and their stakeholders (i.e. the broader TERENA/GÉANT Research and Education Networking Community) in engaging with open education by providing value-added support services.
The OER service intends to aggregate metadata (not the content) at the European-level and helps Universities and NRENs stepping to the next level (reach the critical mass e.g., in terms of the number of objects) towards exposing their OER to global repositories (such as GLOBE [9], for instance).
Aim of the pilot
The primary aim of the TERENA OER small project is to develop the first working prototype of the OER service (including the metadata aggregation engine and the web portal front-end) and pilot a service for the broader TERENA/GÉANT Research and Education Networking Community in 2014. The pilot service can then be taken over by the GN4 project for further technical enhancement and service development aiming to roll out in production.
The TERENA OER small project is to bridge the gap between the end of TF-Media (nowfinished on Dec 31, 2013) and the beginning of GN4 (April 2015). The reason why the idea must be tested in a TERENA small project before it’s introduced in GÉANT is the fact that the critical mass (in terms of participants, support, interest, etc.) has to be gained before any sustainable service development can be done. OER seems to be a typical “chicken-n-egg” problem at the moment (i.e. without a working prototype it’s hard to gain significant interest and without significant interest it’s hard to convince the development) therefore, the TERENA OER small project has to take this initiative. The OER is not the service that the NREN community is desperate to build (e.g., like the Trusted Cloud Drive pilot was in 2012) but it’s something that TERENA the lead has to take the lead be taken on (e.g., like the NRENum.net service pilot was in 2008) in order to facilitate the development of future value-added services on top (including MOOCs and others).
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The TERENA small project can be delivered in four tasks over 9 months (relaxed timeline):
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More information is available in the pilot project description.
Deliverables
First DRAFTs:
- OER-Initial-Study-DRAFT-v1-IUCC.pdf
- OER-Initial-Study-Architecture-v1-GRNET.pdf
- OER-PR-plan-v1-FCT.pdf
- Aggregation engine statistics:
- Here you can find the aggregation workflow results visualized.
- Here you can find the statistical analysis results based on the final aggregated metadata.
- Here you can find the Rest API service offered by the repository.The Terena OER Portal could use it in order to visualize its results.
- Here you can find a simple web based client which sits on top of the API mentioned above.
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- OER-Initial-Study-DRAFT-v2-IUCC.pdf
- OER-Initial-Study-Architecture-v2-GRNET.pdf
- TERENA-OER-AP-draft.pdf
- Aggregation engine oai-pmh target:
- Source for other harvesters here.
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1st meeting - 28 March 2014 @ 10.00 CET
2nd meeting - 2 April 2014 @ 10.00 CEST
3rd meeting - 12 May 2014 @ 14.00 CEST
4th meeting - 15 May 2014 @ 11.00 CEST
5th meeting - 30 June 2014 @ 13.00 CEST
6th meeting - 26 Augustus 2014 @ 16.00 CEST
7th meeting - 16 September 2014 @16.00 CEST
8th meeting - 9 October 2014 @ 9.00-17.00 CEST (Face to face meeting in Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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