Publishing

Publishing Digital Content

to a LOR

Publishing Digital Content

to a LOR

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Packaging and publishing

“The means by which collections of digital learning content can be assembled so that they can be found, accessed, used by learners, tracked and monitored through learning platforms.”

Packaging and publishing

“The means by which collections of digital learning content can be assembled so that they can be found, accessed, used by learners, tracked and monitored through learning platforms.”

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LOR Workflow Process

three main stages: development approval of the LO or digital learning content publication into the institution’s LOR or content

management system 

LOR Workflow Process

three main stages: development approval of the LO or digital learning content publication into the institution’s LOR or content

management system 

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Institution Options

separate workflow for each stage integrated workflow person(s) responsible for steps within

each stage may differ order of the steps may differ

Institution Options

separate workflow for each stage integrated workflow person(s) responsible for steps within

each stage may differ order of the steps may differ

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LOR Workflow Process: Sample I

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LOR Workflow Process: Sample II

Searching, searching, searching . . .

It all depends on words? How do I know which words to use?

Searching, searching, searching . . .

It all depends on words? How do I know which words to use?

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What is metadata?

data about data used for retrieval information about an object description of a “resource” like a library

catalog record search attributes, such as title, author, date,

location, description and subject location of metadata

separate from the resource described embedded within resource

What is metadata?

data about data used for retrieval information about an object description of a “resource” like a library

catalog record search attributes, such as title, author, date,

location, description and subject location of metadata

separate from the resource described embedded within resource

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Why use metadata?

improves precision in Web searching facilitates discovery of relevant information facilitates organization and classification of

information supports digital rights management supports version control and provenance

promotes and enables interoperability

Why use metadata?

improves precision in Web searching facilitates discovery of relevant information facilitates organization and classification of

information supports digital rights management supports version control and provenance

promotes and enables interoperability

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Metadata sets: IEEE Learning Object Metadata

10This SREB-SCORE graphic is taken from IMS Meta-data Best Practice Guide for IEEE 1484.12.1— 2002 Standard for Learning Object Metadata.

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Metadata Sets: Dublin Core Elements

title, subject, description and date creator, publisher and contributor type and format identifier source language relation and coverage rights

Metadata Sets: Dublin Core Elements

title, subject, description and date creator, publisher and contributor type and format identifier source language relation and coverage rights

How long does it take?

difficult time-consuming

frequently asked questions about metadata: http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/

tools/doc/faq.html

How long does it take?

difficult time-consuming

frequently asked questions about metadata: http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/

tools/doc/faq.html

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Adding metadata:

LOR views & templates Adding metadata:

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IMS Content Packaging: Internal Metadata

IMS Content Packaging: Internal Metadata

IMS package

manifest file

MANIFEST

metadata

organizations

resources

sub-manifest(s)

actual files (HTML, images, media, etc.)

content files

Adapted from IMS Content Packaging Best Practice and Implementation Guide Version 1.1.4 of October 2004: http://www.imsglobal.org/content/packaging/index.html. 14

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Importing Metadata

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Exercise:

Practice tagging & publishing

Exercise:

Practice tagging & publishing

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This presentation was developed by Liz Glowa and Michael Anderson and was edited by William Hawk, June Weis, and Lisa Johnson.  Development of this resource was funded by the members of the SREB Sharable Content Object Repositories for Education (SCORE) initiative.