Welcome & introductions

Hello all, and welcome to the W3C schema course extension community 
group[1]. Thank you for joining. By joining the group you also 
subscribed to this public email list.

With holidays for many of us coming up, now isn't a great time to start 
the main business of the group, but I think it might be useful to make a 
start with some introductions and some initial setting up tasks. I'll 
deal with the latter in another email; first introductions.

My name is Phil Barker, I work at Heriot-Watt University as a research 
fellow in computer science [3], I also work with Cetis, the Centre for 
Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards [4]. I am based 
in Edinburgh, Scotland.  My main area of research is the use of 
technology to enhance teaching and learning, largely at University level 
and mainly by supporting the sharing, discovery and evaluation of 
suitable resources. I have worked on Open Educational Resources (OER), 
and on standards for educational metadata. In the distant past I helped 
edit the IMS Learning Resource Meta-data Best Practice and 
Implementation Guidelines. More recently I was on the technical working 
group of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), which 
successfully developed some properties for schema.org to help describe 
learning resources [5]. LRMI is now a task group of the Dublin Core 
Metadata Initiative [6].

I have always thought that describing the educational properties of 
events and courses was the natural extension of the LRMI work, hence my 
interest when this issue was raised through schema.org.

I know several of you who have joined this group, but not all of you; 
and I suspect that other people in the group don't know everyone. So, if 
you can spare a few minutes, it would be great if you could introduce 
yourselves.

Best wishes, Phil


1. https://www.w3.org/community/schema-course-extend/
2. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schema-course-extend/
3. http://people.pjjk.net/phil
4. http://cetis.org.uk/
5. LRMI project http://www.lrmi.net/ ; LRMI spec 
http://dublincore.org/dcx/lrmi-terms/1.1/
6. http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/AB-Comm/ed/LRMI/TG


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Phil Barker           @philbarker
LRMI, Cetis, ICBL     http://people.pjjk.net/phil
Heriot-Watt University

Workflow: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/workflow/



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Received on Wednesday, 16 December 2015 16:00:36 UTC