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Course Data Programme:Data definitions and vocabulary framework

Start time: 2 pm and will be recorded.Recording link:https://sas.elluminate.com/mr.jnlp?suid=M.87B172C1B5037C1F1F1DAF8F483463&sid=2009077

14 March 2012 #coursedata

Agenda

How the session will work Intro to Data Definitions and Vocabularies Work Strand Schedule Updates Issues Conclusions and next steps

Course Data Programme:Data definitions and vocabulary framework

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Relevant sources of information

Course Data Programme: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/coursedata.aspx

XCRI Knowledge Base: http://www.xcri.co.uk Recording & all slides will be available from the XCRI

Knowledge Base website. Data definitions: http://

www.xcri.co.uk/KbLibrary/XCRI_CAP_Data_Definitions2.0.docx Vocabulary Framework:

http://www.xcri.co.uk/KbLibrary/CourseDataProgramme_Vocabulary_Framework2.0.docx

Who are we?

Alan Paull, Lead on Data Defs / Vocabs work

Ruth Drysdale, JISC Programme manager Rob Englebright, JISC Tech Prog manager Kirstie Coolin, XCRI Support Team

Jennifer Paull, APS, Projects Officer

Lisa Vincent, Netskills, Elluminate technical support

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Agenda

How the session will work Intro to Data Definitions and Vocabularies Work Strand Schedule Updates Issues Conclusions and next steps

Course Data Programme:Data definitions and vocabulary framework

Intro to Data Defs &Vocabs Work Strand Community-based Accepted and authoritative Practical Interoperable Data Definitions Document

– General guidelines– Namespaces– Licencing– Elements and attributes

Vocabulary Framework Document– Creation, publication and

maintenance– Recommended Course Data

Programme vocabularies

Schedule

15 February 2012: First Elluminate session End February 2012: Second draft 14 March 2012: Second Elluminate session 26 March 2012: Final draft published 30 March 2012: Final draft approved 31 March 2012: First release published

Updates

Schema locations:– At Google Code:

http://code.google.com/p/xcri-schemas/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fxsd– At XCRI Knowledge Base: http://www.xcri.co.uk/bindings/[filename]

eNewsletter: http://www.xcri.co.uk/KbLibrary/Newsletter_Stage2_4thissue.doc

Next general Course Data Elluminate:– Friday 30th March 2012

BS 8581: Draft for public comment: Now!http://www.xcri.co.uk/component/content/article/26-general-news/296-bs8581-aka-xcri-cap-out-for-public-comment.html

Spreadsheet version of Data Defs will also be available

Issues

Special characters (para 25, page 7) Namespaces (para 29, page 8) Licensing of XCRI-CAP feeds (para 32, page 9) Date (para 40, page 10)  Image [standardising on an image size] (page 11) Provider|location|identifier or URI (page 19) Course|identifier [URIs] (page 31) Qualification|identifier [should this be mandatory?] (page 35) Presentation|cost (page 45) Presentation|identifier: [pseudo-URIs?]  (page 47/48) Presentation|title: May be inherited from course title (page 52) LATE ADDITION: <presentation> Preferred, rather than Mandatory? Vocabularies: Should we be insisting on the use of specific vocabularies? If

so, which ones?

Next steps

26 March 2012: Final draft published 30 March 2012: Final draft approved 31 March 2012: First release published Till March 2013: Formal version control with update path –

plus annexes for communities of practice

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Thank you for participating in Stage 2 of the Course Data programme

For any further queries about data definitions and vocabularies please contact: Alan Paull (Lead on data defs/vocab work) alan@alanpaull.co.uk

Sandra Winfield (Support Team & Data Defs/ Vocabs work Project Manager) sandra.winfield@nottingham.ac.uk

Rob Englebright (JISC Technical Programme Manager) r.englebright@jisc.ac.uk