course information in linked data & schema.org

hello all,
I would like to invite comments on two separate but related pieces of work.

1. Course information in schema.org
The idea of using LRMI / schema.org for describing courses has been 
mooted several times over the last two or three years, here and on the 
main schema.org mail lists. Most recently, Wes Turner opened an issue on 
github which attracted some attention [1] and some proposed solutions. I 
lead a work package within the DCMI LRMI Task Group [2] to try to take 
this forwards. To that end I and some colleagues in the Task Group have 
given some thought to what the scope and use cases to be addressed might 
be, mostly around advertising/discovering courses. You can see our notes 
as a Google Doc <https://goo.gl/CO6vKc>, you should be able to add 
comments to this document and we would welcome your thoughts. In 
particular we would like to know whether there are any missing use cases 
or requirements. Other offers of help and ideas would also be welcome!

I plan to compare the derived requirements with the proposed solutions 
and with the data typically provided in web pages

2. Institutional course data as linked data
Stefan Dietze commented on the schema.org work that it would be worth 
looking at similar existing vocabularies. That linked nicely with some 
other work that a colleague is undertaking, looking at how we might 
represent and use course data from our department as linked data 
(similar to Fouad Zablith's work [3]). She is reviewing the relevant 
vocabularies that we can find (AIISO, TEACH, XCRI-CAP, CourseWare, MLO, 
CEDS). There is a working draft at <https://goo.gl/2J8P7v> on which we 
would welcome comments.



1. https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/195
2. http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/AB-Comm/ed/LRMI/TG
3. http://www.www2015.it/documents/proceedings/companion/p711.pdf

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Received on Wednesday, 1 July 2015 08:58:07 UTC