SWITCH - LOR Digital Asset Management an Hochschulen, Wien Rolf Brugger Christian Rohrer

© 2007 SWITCH Current Situation Digital learning content production is increasing Distribution of content –LMS: institutional - local - private –CMS, website: institutional - local - private  generally not public, not retrievable, not persistent  digital heritage of universities not preserved Content sharing and transfer: –Classical way: “Google” –Web 2.0 approaches: (technology, tools, services, way-of-thinking)  Social - networking  Wikipedia, YouTube, Digg, delicious,...  potential copyright issues –Repositories: Merlot, Ariadne, CAREO, LORnet, EdNA,... Web2.0: easy, attractive, flexible, social

© 2007 SWITCH Goals and Motivation Re-use e-learning content Enhance collaboration (intra- and inter-institutional) Make teaching activities visible to peers and to the public Attract students Long-term archiving and distribution of content with stable URL (content lifecyle) Make teaching activities citable and referenceable Single point of entry for all kinds of e-learning contents - independently from distribution platform

© 2007 SWITCH Scenarios and Benefits of a LOR Personal content management: Lecturers can use their content in different LMS (i.e. as visiting lecturer) and lower migration cost in case of changes  Corporate content management: Projects or working groups can share common resources and deploy them in different LMS Distributed working groups can collaborate and build contents for common courses Institutions with one ore more LMS can manage their content independently from the LMS which is currently used Inter-institutional degrees (e.g. Master degrees at UAS, small institutes at universities) can use a common content platform with the LMS provided by the institutions I have a concept that my students frequently struggle with and need to find better ways to demonstrate it. I need an assignment for a new topic area I want to include in my course.  Establish a media library on faculty level of an institution

© 2007 SWITCH LOR Criteria as defined by working groups Ease of use –Publish: one-click export from LMS to repository –Retrieve: full-text search, metadata search, Google search, browse –Re-use: try it online, download standardized package Metadata –Simple metadata model (low number of mandatory tags) –Adaptable model (extensible with optional tags) –Re-use existing metadata Quality assurance –Quality of metadata (editorial department) –Quality of content (peer reviews) Access rights –Authors control access to their contents –Control levels: individual (private), group, institution, world (public) –Authentication by AAI

© 2007 SWITCH LOR Criteria (cont.) Federated architecture: –Possibility to run institutional repository that is part of a federation User interface –Adaptable:  simple interface with few functions  or advanced, special purpose interfaces –Support for multiple languages: en, fr, de, it Federation –International federation: possibility to cooperate with foreign repositories –LOR complies with OAI-PMH standard Extensible architecture –Flexibility to integrate special applications, e.g. manage e-tests, manage x-ray images, implement workflows

© 2007 SWITCH Proposed Architecture Federation Institutional integration The user's perspective Metadata Technical integration Access and usage control

© 2007 SWITCH General decisions restrictions, requirements –currently, only learning objects –national level –higher education no restrictions or constraints –granularity: course, module, lesson, image, video clip, pdf-doc,... –license: creative commons, commercial,... –access rights: public, group, private –no formal quality criteria or reviewing national system based on open source software –Fedora –Meresco, PKP Harvester, Fez(?)

© 2007 SWITCH Architecture: Federation hierachical organization autonomous decision about structure and organization UniZH Math-Nat Philosoph. Vet'medizin Medizin Wirtschaftsw. Rechtswiss. Theologie FHO Tech / IT / Bau Gesundheitsw. Planung / Wirtsch. Soziale Arbeit St. Gallen Rappersw. Buchs Chur EPFL Arch / Civil Eng. Chem / Math / Phys Engineering Inform. / Communic. Life Science Humanities Tech. Management

© 2007 SWITCH Integration LMS-Integration –publish course to LOR demodemo –view course in LOR demodemo Integration with existing portals

© 2007 SWITCH Customizable Interface Simple / advanced Adapted to content type Adapted to corporate identity To enforce workflows Web-Services interface for custom front ends Repository Engine Uni A Uni B: CMS Videoportal Web Services API LMS adapter Image Library adapter

© 2007 SWITCH Fedora Open source repository system Evaluation at Supports federation Flexible Modular

© 2007 SWITCH Metadata Model Simple Common Schema –Common schema within federation –Simple basic schema with possibility for extensions Extensible Model Mandatory ID Title* Contributor Copyright* Cr/Mod Date Format Institution Location OptionalTags Description Keywords Language Domain Issue Date Instructional Method Learning Resource Type Context Access Rights ► Uni Basel ► Economy ► Introduction I ► Introduction II ► Psychology ► Life Science ► Uni Bern ► Uni Geneva ► Video ► Economy ► Psychology ► Life Science ► PDF ► JPEG + ECTS + MPEG7 + Dublin Core  only possible to extend schema  fnm-austria

© 2007 SWITCH Metadata Model Mapping Mandatory BasicExtendedDublin CoreIMS Metadataself-defined ID... Title title Language language Contributor creator Location (~ID)Location Copyright rights formattypeformat keywordssubject/keywdskeywords description instructional methodcoverage creation datedaterole learning res typeaudienceinteractivity type contextpublishersemantic density access rightssignaturecontext...  common pool of metadata schemas!

© 2007 SWITCH Metadata: Dictionaries Domain / Areas / categories Example: SNF Categories Human and Social Sciences Philosophy, Psychology, Educational science and Religious sciences Legal and Social sciences, Economics History Archaeology, Ethnology and Visual arts Linguistics and Literature Fields for UAS Mathematics, Natural- and Engineering Sciences Mathematics Astronomy, Astrophysics and Spatial Sciences Chemistry Physics Engineering Sciences Environmental Sciences Earth Sciences Biology and Medicine Basic Biological Research General Biology Basic Medical Sciences Experimental Medicine Clinical Medicine Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology/Early Diagnosis/Prevention) Social Medicine Categories: –not too fine: 1 or 2 categories should describe domain of a teacher –not too coarse: to be specific enough Institutions Languages Data formats Access rights Translate dictionaries to en, fr, de, it  common pool of dictionaries!

© 2007 SWITCH Content Model Typical Object: Obj ID (FOXML) Metadata (according one schema of metadata pool) License (FOXML) Visibility, read permissions (FOXML) Collection (RELS-EXT) binary datastream (optional)

© 2007 SWITCH Access and Usage Control Authors control read access rights and usage policies –Creative commons: commercial use? modifications? citations? Control levels: private, group, institution, world Authentication: AAI

© 2007 SWITCH Persistent Identifiers Uniform Resource Name (URN) Syntax: Namespace Identifier:Namespace specific string NSS: "ISBN", "MPEG", "SWIFT", "ISO",... Examples: –urn:isbn: –urn:ietf:rfc:2648 URN Handle DOI URI

© 2007 SWITCH Institutional Integration Support social tagging Support peer reviews Honor teaching Generate reports Teacher/teaching rewarding system –for those who share –for those who re-use eLearning award or quality label Political support and cultural change!

© 2007 SWITCH Pilot Project started in summer '07 4 partners: UniGE, FHZ, ZHAW, USI/SUPSI basic agreements on architecture and interfaces test & development installations specifications –access & authorization –metadata management –ingest API for LMS set up federation implement LMS integration implement browse&search UI

© 2007 SWITCH Thanks e-Learning Services –Vista –LOR –more activities eConferencing –Collaboration: Adobe Connect –Streaming: Play –Video Conferencing