edrene: intrallect update charles duncan [email protected]
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Three items of news
• Business case study
• Automatic metadata generation study
• National Assessment Resource
• Intrallect Annual Conference
Business Cases
• Good Intentions: Improving the evidence base– Studied around 20 repositories
• Mainly Open and/or subject-based
– Focus on business models and business cases
– Identified around 60 key benefits• Global; National; Institutional; Teachers;
Learners
– http://www.intrallect.com/index.php/intrallect/knowledge_base/research_projects
Automatic Metadata Generation
• Types of metadata generated automatically– Subject metadata– Name metadata– Geospatial metadata– Factual metadata– Bibliographic metadata– Usage metadata– File format metadata
• Purposes of metadata– Discovery– Discrimination– Recommendation
• http://www.intrallect.com/index.php/intrallect/knowledge_base/research_projects
Automatic Metadata Generation
• Just-in-case v just-in-time
National Assessment Resource
• Intrallect is supplier to
• Learning and Teaching Scotland
• Scottish Qualifications Authority
• Neil Livesey
Neil LiveseyNeil Livesey
Project Manager National Assessment Resource,
Learning and Teaching Scotland
and Scottish Qualifications Authority
What is the purpose of the NAR?What is the purpose of the NAR?
“To assist in meeting the Scottish Governments objectives set out in Assessment for Curriculum for Excellence - Strategic Vision and Key Principles.”
Sept 2009
Fiona Hyslop
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning
ResourceCentre
Authentication
Service
ContentCreation
Tool
AssessmentConstruction
Support forAssessment
Delivery
Infrastructure of the NARInfrastructure of the NAR
NARGlowPortal
LTSOnline
Services
SQAWebSite
SQAAcademy
GlowLearn
SQANABs
SQAUnderstanding
Standards
CPDReflect
?
Integration with existing servicesIntegration with existing services
ResourceCentre
Authentication
Service
ContentCreation
Tool
AssessmentConstruction
Support forAssessment
Future Infrastructure of the NAR?Future Infrastructure of the NAR?
Detailed Reporting
and Analysis
FurtherAlgorithmic Developmen
t
Further Integration
with LTS and SQA services
OnlineDelivery
Quality AssuranceQuality Assurance
How do you manage quality processes in user generated resources?
– Quality “marking” at a National Level– Comments based on specified criteria– Flexible workflows
Questions?Questions?
58 Robertson Street
Glasgow
G2 8DU
0141 282 5079
Intrallect Annual Conference
• All welcome!• Edinburgh, 28-29 April 2010• Repositories: Back to the Future• http://www.intrallect.com/index.php/
intrallect/news_events/events• Keynote speakers:
– Neil Livesey– Dan Rehak