Re: Welcome & introductions

Hi,

My name is Miquel Centelle and I'm professor at the Department of
Librarianship and Information Sciences at the University of Barcelona, in
the areas of information representation and Organization, metadata and law
information sources. I'm researcher at the groups "CULTURE AND DIGITAL
CONTENT: DOCUMENTARY, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES" <
http://bd.ub.edu/grups/ccd>
and ADAPTABIT: WORKING GROUP DEVOTED TO DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY IN TEACHING,
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INNOVATION <http://bd.ub.edu/adaptabit/en>.

Since 2013, within the context of Adaptabit a project is being conducted to
design a workflow for the creation, description, publication and
dissemination of learning resources in video media. One of the main goals
is applying a metadata schema to describe accessibility and educational
aspects of those videos, in order to let the users with disabilities to
look for and retrieval them according to their specific needs and
expectations. For this purpose, the broader model of Access for All has
been taken into account, the metadata schemas LRMI and MPA have been
adapted, and the semantic technology of microdata have been leveraged.
Durant the following months, we are going to apply this model to the
Digital Repository of the University of Barcelona, based on DSpace, and we
are going to study the benefits of using microdata for searching and
positioning learning resources on the search majors (Google, Yahoo and
Bing). The funding institution is the University of Barcelona.

Best wishes,

Miquel Centelles



2015-12-16 16:59 GMT+01:00 Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk>:

> 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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Miquel Centelles
Facultat de Biblioteconomia i Documentació
Universitat de Barcelona
Melcior de Palau, 140
Despatx 203
08014 Barcelona
Tel.: 93 40 34017 - Fax: 934 035 772
Skype: miquel.centelles
Correu electrònic: miquel.centelles@ub.edu