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Two projects about describing courses
I’m currently involved in a couple of projects relating to representing course information as linked data / schema.org. 1. Course information in schema.org As you may know the idea of using LRMI /...
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Using Garmin eTrex Vista HCx with Ubuntu 14.04LTS & QLandkarte GT
I have a rather old Garmin GPS eTrex that I use for GPS on walking holidays and cycle rides. I use it with OpenCycleMap contour maps downloaded from talkytoaster. To plan routes and manage the routes,...
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WordPress as a semantic web platform?
For the work we’ve been doing on semantic description of courses we needed a platform for creating and editing instance data flexibly and easily. We looked at callimachus and Semantic MediaWiki; in the...
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Technology enhanced learning in HW MACS
At the beginning of the summer I was handed an internal project convening a group to put into action the strategic plan for the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning at the School of...
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A short project on linking course data
Alasdair Gray and I have had Anna Grant working with us for the last 12 weeks on an Equate Scotland Technology Placement project looking at how we can represent course information as linked data. As I...
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Mobile computing
Ages ago I had my raspberry Pi set up to run headless and wireless, and had built a motor driver based on an H-bridge, all ready for it to become mobile. In fact it did become mobile by canabilising a...
View ArticleLRMI examples for schema.org
It’s been over two years since the LRMI properties were added to schema.org. One thing that we should have done much sooner is to create simple examples of how they can be used for the schema.org...
View ArticleChecking schema.org data with the Yandex structured data validator API
I have been writing examples of LRMI metadata for schema.org. Of course I want these to be valid, so I have been hitting various online validators quite frequently. This was getting tedious....
View ArticlePresentation: LRMI – using schema.org to facilitate educational resource...
Today I am in London for the ISKO Knowledge Organisation in Learning and Teaching meeting, where I am presenting on LRMI and schema.org to facilitate educational resource discovery on the web and...
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A library shaped black hole in the web?
A library shaped black hole in the web? was the name of an OCLC event that was getting its second(?) run in Edinburgh last week, looking at how libraries can contribute to the web, using new...
View ArticleOn the first day of Christmas
Prompted by On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: Anscombe’s quartet https://t.co/0olyAiVaBY — Judy Robertson (@JudyRobertsonUK) December 2, 2015 and with apologies: On the first day...
View Articleschema for courses
This is essentially an invite to get involved with building a schema extension for educational courses, by way of a description of work so far. If you want to reply it’s sent as an email schema.org...
View ArticleHECoS, a new subject coding system for Higher Education
You may have missed that just before Christmas HECoS (the Higher Education Classification of Subjects) was announced. I worked a little on the project that lead up to this, along with colleagues in...
View ArticleWhy is there no LearningResource type in schema.org?
A couple of times in the last month or so the question of why isn’t there a LearningResource type in schema.org as a subtype of CreativeWork. In case it comes up again, here’s my answer. We took a...
View ArticleSchema course extension progress update
I am chair of the Schema Course Extension W3C Community Group, which aims to develop an extension for schema.org concerning the discovery of any type of educational course. This progress update is...
View ArticleSustainability and Open Education
Last week I was on a panel at Edinburgh University’s Repository Fringe event discussing sustainability and OER. As part of this I was asked to talk for ten minutes on some aspect of the subject. I...
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Schema course extension update
This progress update on the work to extend schema.org to support the discovery of any type of educational course is cross-posted from the Schema Course Extension W3C Community Group. If you are...
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LRMI at #DCMI16 Metadata Summit, Copenhagen
I was in Copenhagen last week, at the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2016 conference, where I ran a workshop entitled “Building on Schema.org to describe learning resources” (as one of my colleagues...
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LRMI balloon debate at #DCMI16 Metadata Summit, Copenhagen
I summarised the presentations given at the LRMI workshop “Building on Schema.org to describe learning resources” at the Dublin Core conference in my previous post, this post is about the discussion...
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XKCD or OER for critical thinking
I teach half a course on Critical Thinking to 3rd year Information Systems students. A colleague takes the first half which covers statistics. I cover how science works including the scientific method,...
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