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Danish examples: Materialeplatformen Fagenes Infoguide. Tommy Byskov Lund October 20th, 2008. National repositories - our goals. Simplify search and retrieval of learning resources Increase visibility (including teacher-produced learning resources)
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Danish examples:MaterialeplatformenFagenes Infoguide Tommy Byskov Lund October 20th, 2008
National repositories - our goals • Simplify search and retrieval of learning resources • Increase visibility (including teacher-produced learning resources) • Ensure updated information about learning resources • Support knowledge sharing among teachers • Both digital and analogue resources
materialeplatform.emu.dk Initiated by the Danish Ministry of Education Opened on-line in April 2006 20.000+ Danish learning resources Three section: Publishers / Teacher to teacher / Media Archive • infoguide.emu.dk • Initiated by the Danish Ministry of Education • Educational link repository • Opened on-line in 1997 • 10.000+ resources • Quality controlled links to external web sites – 45 paid editors (subjects)
materialeplatform.emu.dk www Descriptions of learning resources(IEEE LOM) Descriptions of learning resources (Dublin Core) infoguide.emu.dk file storage EducatorsRegister and update (staff) search and suggest (all) EducatorsRegister, upload, update, search Contentproducers Register, upload, update, search External collections automated metadatatransfer
My repository - personalization • Fagenes Infoguide • ….not really. • Special interface for editors • Materialeplatformen • ”My pages” – your contributions (but not collections, subscriptions etc.) • Profile page for publishers /content contributors • RSS feeds • Java Script based integration of search results on your own page • Search box
Building your own content from repository resources • Fagenes Infoguide • Links to external websites; no common licensing schemes etc. • Materialeplatformen • Creative Commons licenses on all teacher produced material and photos in media archive • ”Print basket” – mail/save/print search results • No authoring / packaging tool as part of repository • No implementation of IEEE LOM (or other) relations
User generated metadata … • Fagenes Infoguide • Most popular links within a category (web service) • Materialeplatformen • Currently no tagging/reviews etc. • Plans: • Statistics available for contributors • Tagging/evaluations (thumbs up?) on teacher produced materials
Curriculum mapping /vocabulary management • Fagenes Infoguide • Browsing categories below subject level decided by editors • No automatic mapping • Subjects included based on available budget (and e.g. no. of students following subject) • Materialeplatformen • Solution depending on educational segment • Mostly manual updates (centrally)
Community building • Materialeplatformen: • Integration with national conference system – SkoleKom (FirstClass) • encouraging registration through moderated subject based conferences • Linking to these conferences from repository • Integration (search box / registration links) offered to major learning platforms
Analysing search strings - examples • 46% of searches further restricted to educational segment • Not many searches further restricted • Very limited use of search operators • 57% of searches include at least two words • Searches with no results: • Publisher content: 24% • Teacher to teacher: 49% • Media archive: 70% • Search terms/stats to be provided to publishers every six months