The University of OxfordOXCAP – Oxford Course Advertising ProjectThis project has implemented the systems and processes required for the publication of XCRI-CAP feeds containing graduatetraining opportunities for the University of Oxford.

Individual training providers supply details about their courses in electronic format (XCRI-CAP, XML or CSV) to Oxford’s OpenData Service. Information about the courses is stored as RDF and is made available as a series of data feeds; there is anauthenticated feed for internal use and a OGL licenced feed (containing slightly fewer courses) for public use.

The authenticated feed is consumed by the institutional VLE (WebLearn / Sakai) and is used to drive a training opportunitiesdiscovery and booking service aimed at graduate students. The service has been live since January 2013.

The project also developed supportingsoftware artefacts: a VLE tool to advertise

courses and JavaScript library for displayingcourses on websites.

CSV Export from Medical Sciences DB

Data entry form in Share Point

DAISY course entry console

Oxford SkillsClassification Vocabulary

How data flows from training providers to end user

Browse and bookvia Mobile Oxford.

(JISC-funded CoBoMoProject.)

JavaScriptCourse display

widget

Course feeds from Oxford’s Open Data Service

VLE Tool: browse by date

VLE Tool: browse by department

ITLP course booking service

Advantage forOxford: thiswill show theworld howmuch excellentgraduatetraining is onoffer and willhelp Oxford toattract the beststudents .

Advantage forOxford: thiswill allowstudents totake fulladvantage ofthe training onoffer leading to‘better’ trainedresearchersand academics.

As a leading research institution the training andsupport we offer our graduates students has tobe first class. The introduction of an IT systemwhich brings together in one place all of ouracademic and skills training courses forgraduates is a tremendous resource. – Dr PatrickBaird, Member of Education Committee

The Oxford University Student Union 2011 Report on behalfof Post-Graduate Taught Students highlighted the need toorganise, in one place, information about the extensive andrich variety of training provided for graduate students bydifferent parts of the University. They wished the universitycould make it easier for students to access informationabout training opportunities and to enrol for places. Webelieve this project has satisfied all these desires.

Process and policy guidance will bedeveloped in conjunction with the trainingproviders to ensure all the outputs from theproject are sustainable.

This is a really big stepforward in theorganisation andpresentation of traininginformation for GraduateStudents– Dr BridgetTaylor, Assistantregistrar, Social SciencesDivision

Oxford skills have beenmapped to Vitae’s Researcher

Development Frameworksub-domains. The RDF

articulates the knowledge,behaviours and attributesof successful researchers.

ITLP course entry page