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 OER Interoperability Sprint 2008 Status Report (8MB, PDF) 

Completed Before the Sprint

 * OCW/OER Bloggregate/Community Blogs
 * Brief Description: Aggregate existing OER and OCW blogs and recruit bloggers to create acommunity blog (guest and permanent bloggers) to talk about OER/OCW topics.
 * Where can we see this?: OCW Blog, OER Blogs (screenshots taken)
 * Participants: OCW Consortium
 * Status: Code written and deployed by OCW Consortium at two web sites.
 * Further Work: Recruit additional perma-bloggers.


 * OpenLearn RSS
 * Brief Description: Add RSS feeds for OpenLearn materials and content.
 * Where can we see this?: Arts and History Topics, Babylonian mathematics (MA290_2) (screenshots taken)
 * Participants: OpenLearn
 * Status: Code written and deployed at OpenLearn web site.
 * Further Work: None at this time.


 * OER Commons metadata at European Schoolnet and ARIADNE
 * Brief Description: Provide OER Commons metadata (initially .csv) to European Schoolnet and ARIADNE.
 * Where can we see this?: XXX
 * Status: Initial set of metadata transferred to European Schoolnet and ARIADNE.
 * Further work: European Schoolnet and ARIADNE provide public access to OER Commons metadata, and European Schoolnet and ARIADNE harvest OER Commons OAI-PMH.


 * OER Commons Search
 * Brief Description: Provide search access to OER Commons metadata to enable other sites you put an OER Commons-powered search on their site.
 * Where can we see this?: OER Commons External Search code
 * Plone site demo for OER-C search box API to display search results on another site (needs a OER-C logo to accompany the search box - will add) (screenshot taken)
 * Participants: OER Commons
 * Status: Code is completed and deployed on OER Commons web site, examples available

Completed/Nearly Completed at the Sprint

 * Content Licensing product RDF display of Creative Commons License
 * Brief Description: Update the Content Licensing product (a separate stand alone Plone product which is used in eduCommons-based OCWs) to display updated RDF of Creative Commons licenses to better enable interoperabilty of machine readable license information.
 * Where can we see this?: XXX (screenshot needed)
 * Participants: enPraxis and Creative Commons
 * Status: Code written and checked into Content Licensing product source code
 * Further Work: Content Licensing product revision to be released XXX, product to be made available with eduCommons 3.x in XXX 2008.


 * OpenLearn RDF display of Creative Commons License
 * Brief Description: Update the OpenLearn to display updated RDF of Creative Commons licenses to better enable interoperabilty of machine readable license information.
 * Where can we see this?: (screenshot taken)
 * Participants: OpenLearn and Creative Commons
 * Status: Code written and deployed to OpenLearn development server.
 * Further Work: Deployment to live OpenLearn website April 2008.


 * OER Recommender integration at OpenLearn
 * Brief Description: Integrate OER Recommender recommendation in OpenLearn's "Related Units" box on each unit.
 * Where can we see this?: (screenshots taken)
 * Participants: OpenLearn and COSL
 * Status: Code written and deployed on OpenLearn development server.
 * Further Work: Deployment to live OpenLearn website April 2008.


 * Make-A-Path integration at OpenLearn
 * Brief Description: View existing pathways containing OpenLearn materials and make new pathways related to the current unit using the Make-A-Path tool.
 * Where can we see this?: (screenshots taken)
 * Participants: OpenLearn and COSL
 * Status: Code written and deployed on OpenLearn development server.
 * Further Work: Deployment to live OpenLearn website April 2008.


 * OER Commons Search at Creative Commons
 * Brief Description: Integrate the OER Commons search box into the ccLearn website.
 * Demo: [ccLearn demo integrating OER-C API] (screenshots taken)
 * Participants: ISKME/OER Commons and Creative Commons
 * Status: Code written and deployed on Creative Commons development server. (See cctools at sourceforge.net)
 * Further Work: Final tweaking and deployment to live ccLearn website.


 * OCW Finder integration at OCW Consortium
 * Brief Description: Integrate OCW Finder at OCW Consortium web site
 * What: Integrate OCW Finder at OCW Consortium web site
 * Where can we see this?: Screenshots needed
 * Participants: OCW Consortium and COSL
 * Status: Code written and deployed on OCW Consortium development server. Project on hold pending RSS feed from COSL.
 * Further Work: Speed improvements in return of data to OCW Consortium and deployment to live OCW Consortium website. Update code to work with RSS feed from OCW Finder. Target completion: April 1.


 * OER Recommender integration into Connexions "More"
 * Brief Description: Integrate OER Recommender resources into Connexions "More"
 * Where can we see this?: (screenshots taken)
 * Status: Code written and deployed on Connexions development server.
 * Further Work: Additional XML/metadata from OER Recommender to improve display and deployment to the live Connexions web server.


 * OER Commons ratings in Connexions
 * Brief Description: Integrate/display OER Commons reviews/ratings in Connexions "More" via customized lens-type to use RSS from OER Commons.
 * Where can we see this?: (screenshots taken)
 * Status: Code written and deployed on Connexions development server (and OAI-PMH feed from OER Commons).
 * Further Work: Additional automation to populate lenses for resources based on OER Commons tags and reviews, and additional display of reviews in lens/resource. Deployment to live Connexions website.
 * Consider: Similar system for eduCommons


 * Connexions IMS CP Import into eduCommons
 * Brief Description: Update IMS Transport product to allow eduCommons to import Connexions IMS Content Package.
 * Where can we see this?: screenshots needed
 * Participants: Connexions and Philip Schatz
 * Status: Prototype is completed and tested.
 * Further Work: Integrate Philip's code into IMS Transport product used by eduCommons and deployment to eduCommons users.


 * OER Feed Registries
 * Brief Description: Single source registry for all RSS and OAI-PMH feeds for OER repositories.
 * Where can we see this?: OER Feeds (screenshots taken)
 * Participants: COSL and Creative Commons
 * Status: Basic functionality completed and deployed
 * Further Work: Debugging, promotion to feed providers and consumers


 * eduCommons to Wordpress Import
 * Brief Description: Semi-automated rebuilding eduCommons OCW courses in Wordpress.
 * Where can we see this?: Blogs, Wikis Course in WordPress
 * Participants: COSL
 * Status: This demo is completed
 * Further Work: Needs to be fully automated via a Wordpress plugin.


 * ccLearn Nutch Aggregated Search
 * Brief Description: Extensions to Nutch, and open source search engine, to supplement search results with metadata from OER feeds.
 * Where can we see this?: Still under development; demo to be released by 21 February 2008 at Open Education Search
 * Participants: Creative Commons and COSL
 * Status: Proof of concept code written at sprint; working on integrating [oerfeeds.info OER Feeds] as the source of resources to aggregate
 * Further Work: Sort by "openness", ensure aggregated dataset is available for others to remix

Under Discussion

 * IMS CP Import from OpenLearn into eduCommons
 * Integrate Connexions into OER Recommender - under way
 * Integrate OER Commons into OER Recommender - under way