Portfolio interoperability progress

E-portfolio interoperability
and the advance of Leap2A

Simon GrantJISC Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS)ePortfolio 2010, London2010-07-05

Last year

PIOP 2 projectsIncluding JISCMail list still going strong today:PORTFOLIO-INTEROPERABILITY-WORK@jiscmail.ac.uk

2009-03 version agreed

Worked pretty well on a range of platformsMuch better than IMS eP

PebblePad

Mahara

ePET

etc.

Organisational development

We now have our own domain, leapspecs.org

All documentation there, including namespace

Working towards independence from CETIS

New orthography: Leap2A not LEAP2A

Nice logo to match(strapline: e-portfolio portability)

I'm going to do this from the definition, and bring in more examples shortly

New collaboration

MedBiquitoushttp://www.medbiq.org/

Academy of Medical Royal CollegesMedical Interoperability Portfolio Standards

http://www.mips.org.uk/

Both using (and possibly extending) Leap2A

PIOP 3

Just about to finish, February to July 2010

3 original partnersPebblePad

Nottingham

ePET (Newcastle)

4 new adoptersMyKnowledgeMap

TAG Developments (BLi Education)

University of Derby

Nottingham Trent University / Desire2Learn

Changes 2009-03 to 2010-07

Single namespace leap2=http://terms.leapspecs.org/

Clarification and simplification of attachments

New publication type subtype of resource

Approve atom:contributor alongside atom:author

Intermission as new category for activities

Modification to how locations can be representedleap2:spatial can now hold xhtml or structured content

Really, not much change was needed!

Rendering and validation

Many people felt need for validator

Also needed was a service for human reading

Put both together, validation errors shown in context

Now working well

Will be put on the leapspecs.org site

Issues currently on agenda

AffiliationRepresenting how people relate to organisations

Are they a sub-type of activity?

Representing qualificationsAre they are sub-type of achievement?

Can we agree a vocabulary for types?

Hoped for soon

In current financial situation, probably no more funding

Need to integrate skills and competenciesSo that portfolio tools can plug in frameworks / structures

Similar facility also needed by MedBiquitous

Even being considered for standardization by ISO...

But we need more careful research and thoughtUnderway in CETIS as well as elsewhere

Separate but co-ordinated specification

Independent, self-governing body for leapspecs.org

Leap2R

Thanks...

Thanks for your attention

asimong@gmail.com

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