Utdanning.no (translated: www.education.no)

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Utdanning.no(translated www.education.no)

• A governmental service-oriented repository
  strategy.
• Trond Håvard Hanssen
• thh_at_utdanning.no
• Project manager
• Learning objects repository
• Learning content publishing

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Utdanning.no

• Owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and
  Research.
• The website is a national common gateway that
  provides easy access to everything you need to
  know about education.
• Utdanning.no has no governing authority but is
  coordinating The Norwegian Cooperation of
  Websites in the Educational sector (SANU).
• Utdanning.no website is all designed on open
  source software.

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Service-oriented strategy

• Everything you need to know about education in
  on place.
• This is solved with technology and not editorial
  tasks.
• Data harvesting instead of editorial tasks (cut
  paste)
• We consider ourselves a service provider where
  our webpage is one of many services.

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Utdanning.no

• The website is mainly a metadata portal where the
  key services that we offer are
• A national centralised repository with Course
  descriptions of all educations in Norway
  (course description metadata). CDM
• A national centralised repository of learning
  object metadata.
• A framework for learning content publishing
  (new!).

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Learning object repository

• Metadata collection harvested from minor
  collections.
• Norwegian biggest repository for educational
  digital content. (5500 resources)
• The number of resources and the number of users
  are increasing steadily.
• Since last summer we have doubled the number of
  resources and have 4 times as many users.

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Strategic process

• Marketplace for commercial and non-commercial
  producers
• Harvest small governmental websites. (ims LOM)
• Fine tune routines for import / export. (API)
• Offer services to 3 part organisations. (Gdata,
  SRW/SRU, OAI-PMH )
• Offer framework for Learning content publishing.
  (CMS)
• Offer harvesting from commercial producers. (ims
  LOM)
• Offer harvesting mechanism for content and
  metadata harvesting. (Atom publishing server.
  Files metadata)
• Offer harvesting from a collection of resources
  for people with disabilities.

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A common teacher scenario
Content producers
Search engines
LMS
Commercials publishing agencies
Bibliotek arkiv
Libraries
Learning object collections Repositories
Local libraries
Topic websites
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Service-oriented strategy
Metadataportal / repository harvest minor
collections / websites.
MetaPortal Repositories
Websites LO producers Minor Collections
Matematikk.org
Viten.no
Norsknettskole.no
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Service oriented Strategy
Websites, minor collections
Search box Search Harvest
Metadata Harvest
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Educational Learning resource type
Education, Context
Classification, Taxon Path, Taxon
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Service oriented repository

• Harvesting of minor collections.
• GUI with IMS LOM fields filtering. (HTML)
• Search boxes
• RSS
• Fedora support OAI-PMH harvesting.
• SRW and GData search API.
• Combination of GData and OAI ? filtered
  harvesting.

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To do

• Extend with more service-oriented services.
• More Web 2.0 communication with the end user.
• Connect our repository to international federated
  search projects. (Fire / LRE)
• Change from the use of open source to become open
  source.

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Behind the scene

• In Norway we use http//bak.domain.no
• ?Partner information, what happens behind the
  portal? What technology to we use?
• http//bak.utdanning.no instead of
• http//www.utdanning.no

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Technology

• Fedora Repository software.
• FEZ administration interface.
• Drupal end user interface. (Todo)
• Solr (Lucene) search engine. (Todo)
• Format HTML, LOM, DC, RSS
• API OAI-PMH, SRW, Gdata
• Filtered Harvest Gdata OAI-PMH

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Publishing framework

• Utdanning.no offers this as service for external
  editorial groups.
• Utdanning.no does not want any editorial
  responsibility.
• By now it is offered to a cooperation of local
  governments. They use it for three different
  subjects at high school.
• Their ambition is to make the content so
  comprehensive that it could replace the
  traditional book.
• The content is partly produced by teachers and
  partly bought from publishing companies.
• Fag.utdanning.no

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Bruk av dette dokumentet.

• This work is licensed under a
• Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share
  Alike 3.0 Unported License
• www.creativecommons.org

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Framework Features

• Taxonomy filtered search based on IMS LOM field.
  (NORLOM)
• Classification based on the curriculum objectives
  as search filters.
• Multimedia learning content with text, pictures,
  Flash, video (streaming) etc.
• All media contents are tagged separately,
  searchable and reusable.
• Creative commons licensing (and GNU FDL) width
  icons
• Tip a friend functionality
• Printer friendly presentation width support for
  chapters and a complete book print. (and PDF).
• Login / authentication width the use of a
  national educational identity provider. (Feide)
• Filtering and search based on each goal from the
  curriculum.
• Synthetic Speech
• Multilanguage support (Two different Norwegian
  language).

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GREP

• The actual curriculum objectives as search
  filters (classification).
• The curriculum is constructed as a semantic Topic
  Map.

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We are LIVE

• We released our drupal framework for learning
  content publishing, 26 of September.
• http//fag.utdanning.no
• English Translation

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Service oriented repository

• We want our repository not only to be a website
  but want to offer services to other websites,
  LMS, VLC etc
• We want the learning content to be searchable
  where the users are.
• ? LMS, the schools webpage

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Utdanning.no - A governmental service oriented
repository strategy.

• Agenda
• Short presentation of Utdanning.no
• Service oriented strategy
• Search and harvest
• Publishing framework
• To do