Re: Welcome & introductions

Hello, my name is Stuart Sutton and I serve as the Managing Director of the
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI). I am also a Professor Emeritus with
the Information School of the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) and
live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area. I was co-PI of a decade-long
series of NSF grants starting in 2000 that developed the Achievement
Standards Network description language (ASN-DL) [1] and seeded what is now
the ASN-D2L open repository of machine actionable U.S. K-12 competency
frameworks in RDF [2]. National profiles based on the ASN-DL [3] exist in
the U.S. and Australia and are underway in Canada and Korea.

Prior to the ASN work, I was the data architect for what was then the U.S.
Department of Education's Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) --
subsequently renamed Gateway to 21st Century Skills (1996-2014). Along with
others joining this W3C Community (including Phil), I served on the
Technical Working Group that developed the Learning Resource Management
Initiative (LRMI) specification for description of learning resources as an
extension for schema.org. In 2014, the long-term stewardship of the LRMI
1.1 specification was transferred to DCMI [4] where I serve as a member of
the DCMI/LRMI Task Group managing the further development of the schema.

I joined DCMI in 1999 to co-chair its new DC-Education Community; and,
working with co-Chair Jon Mason, spearheaded development between 2000 and
2003 of a set of Dublin Core properties for learning resource description
including <audience>, <conformsTo>, <educationLevel>,
<instructionalMethod>, and <mediator> [5].  I've served on the DCMI Usage
Board, Advisory Board, and now on its Directorate.

Stuart

[1] http://explore.dublincore.net/theory/briefing-papers/asn-briefing-2/
[2] http://asn.desire2learn.com/
[3] http://explore.dublincore.net/theory/briefing-papers/asn-briefing-3/
[4] http://lrmi.dublincore.net/2014/10/23/lrmi-transfers-stewardship/
[5] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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