The pilot has been closed, results can be found in the Deliverables section.
Duration: March 2014 - January 2015
Budget: 43.000 EUR - Actual expenses: 39.000 EUR
COLLECTION OF FINAL DELIVERABLES (PDF)
The OER pilot service becomes part of the GN4 project SA8 activity starting in April 2015.
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Participants: Eli, Vicente, Kostas, Adam, Peter Notes 1) Kostas showed the statisitcal interface of the back-end. - 6+1 repositories are harvested using both RSS and OAI-PMH protocols. Public iTunesU targets are also harvested via RSS.
- Documentation for content providers are available. More explanation to them is needed on how and where resources are not harvested or filtered out.
- All together about 22k resources are harvested of which 12k are filtered in (i.e. shown in the portal).
- 4 languages are available: English, Spanish, Hungarian and Greek (Protuguese is coming)
2) Vicente showed the front-endportal. - Categories based on subject field, Most viewed and Recenty added lists on the front page.
- Both full text Google search and PuMuKit-based faceted searches are available.
- Embeded player is not always possible (depends on what the repository owner provides)
- Videotorium subject fields need to be translated
- Video duration is not available everywhere
- Some glitches here and there but good for a demonstration
Adam explained the vocabulary that Videotorim use for the subject element: http://videotorium.hu/en/categories - Translation between this vocabular and the UNESCO vocabulary used by the GÉANT OER aggregator can be done. Adam looks after this.
- In general, we have two options: a) ask the content providers to comply with UNESCO, b) provide translation. TBC.
3) Peter elaborated on the next steps - Pilot is considered to be done. KPIs all met. Will be reported to TTC by Peter.
- Final documentation will be compiled and distributed for comments by Peter. (Deadline: end of February)
- Portal will be demoed at the GÉANT Symposium and possibly at TNC'15
- Until the beginning of GN4 (April 2015) the team is off
- Anyhow, we should keep the momentum and discuss on the mailing list (on a volunatry basis until April)
- GN4 SA8 Task 3 will pick the results up and take the OER service to the next level.
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Recording: Notes:
As we commented during the last meeting (19th Jan) I consider the development of Geant-OER Portal done. We are currently doing tests and QA on it. Any help testing the portal and trying to find bugs is very welcome. You will find it here: Please, try it and send any bug reports to this list. Open Issues:
- No duration and direct URL to media on OAI-Repos:
- OAI harvested Repos are not providing duration and direct URL to the media due to DC schema limitations or other issues( iTunesU harvested Repos are working great)
- No Licensing info:
- Only copyright owner info is coming from the agregator, no licensing info for any object
- Deleting strategy:
- A deleting strategy should be defined. When should be an object deleted from the portal´s DDBB ? The first day it's not included in the agregator feed ? (all paradata and link to the object will be lost). We recommend a "soft-delete" strategy (not included in the current development).
- VIDEOTORIUM: No Subject info
- No subject information available from VIDEOTORIUM, no iTunesU or UNESCO Codes available.
- A Requirements document is needed for new repos willing to join (specially for non iTunesU ones)
- Static Info pages needed
- Info, FAQ, About and Contact pages are just mockups. Real info is needed
Comments from Giannis: - Home page should stress the fact that this service provide access to OERs from diverse sources. We need a marketing moto at the top of the home page "Discover multimedia open educational resources from XXXX organisations" or "XXXXXX Open Educational Resources from XXXX organisations at your hands"
- the portal has two many menus. I would propose to have a more clean design with a single main menu
- the main menu contains links that are more suitable for footer. The main menu should have only links related to content discovery i.e. browse, search and advanced search and the About
- we could add some nice logos of the data providers and some basic info http://terenatv.media.uvigo.es/en/library/abc.html
- it is confusing that some of the resources open in the GEANT OER and other directly on the original site
- mainly Spanish content promoted in the home page. This is not very good for a federation service.
- the menu on the left side menu is confusing. I would propose to have a top menu with main options like Browse, Search, About and transfer the top menu contents in footer
- Recorded date field seems not to be correct. Is this really recorded date or ingested into the portal date?
- Add friendly names for the Language filter and not ISO codes e.g. en, es
- Could we have facets with statistics for each value e.g. English (10)?
- using term agriculture in http://terenatv.media.uvigo.es/en/buscador/index?institution=all&lang=all&subj=all&year=all&duration=all&material=all&search=agriculture I get 8 results while using the search box powered by google I get 2. This is confusing. I would strongly recommend to use the Pumykit search mechanism in both cases
- footer content seems not related to the scope of the project
- add how to contribute link with guidelines for the providers on how they can provide their content and link this section to the wiki page that Kostas has shared
- while we are showing audio as an option in the format filter there are no results and the term "no videos" is used. Maybe we could use the term "no resources" instead
Promotion examples from Nelson I’m sending this email with some of the communication examples you asked me to create during the last year. You can see attached 3 different posters in A4 format that can be used to promote the service around the world, mainly to our main target, the NREN’s. 3 Key Messages: 1- Are you ready for open education? 2- Are you ready to connect to the Géant OER? 3- Are you ready to publish your content with open licenses? These examples can be easily promoted by email, newsletters or as a printed version in conferences and institutional events. I think it would be important to create a strong corporate identity (name, logo, slogan), before the project release as I wrote in the communication proposal. In my point of view these elements will be the key to promote the service and to engage users with our brand(Géant OER). I think they should be created and included in the different promotional channels since the beginning of communication process. A4_Are_you_ready_for_open_education.pdf A4_Are_you_ready_to_connect_to_the_Géant_OER.pdf A4_Are_you_ready_to_connect_to_the_Géant_OER.pdf |
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