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EdReNe – Becta update March 2010
EdReNe strategy meeting
24-26 March, 2010, Barcelona, Spain
Andrew Kitchen
Senior Architect – Digital Learning Resources and Tools
Becta
Updating you today about….
A brief update on six key pieces of work Becta is undertaking:
 Content Ecosystem progress
 Persistent Identity and Resolution for Digital Learning Resources
 A Metadata profile for Digital Learning Resources (Alex Kidd)
 IPR & Copyright for Digital Learning Resources (Alex Kidd)
 Content Packaging Application Profile
 Interactive Whiteboard Common File Format
Content Ecosystem
A quick recap:
 Strategy published June 2009
http://industry.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=40418
 Implementation roadmap published August 2009
http://industry.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=41020
 Procurement announced November 2009
http://industry.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=41250
 Contracts to be awarded for 3 out of 4 lots from the procurement, pending
contract negotiation.
 Project Initiation Document (PID) being written currently, due end March 2010
 Pilot starts April 2010 with an expected end March 2011
Persistent Identity and Resolution (1)
Becta provided a grant to UKOLN to produce a discussion document for
industry. The brief included the following tasks:
 What types of organisation need advice and guidance about persistent identity
and resolution?
 What are the real issues to be tackled?
 What are the arguments and views held by the differing parties to solve these
issues?
 What technological and methodological solutions actually exist?
 Which technological or methodological solutions are appropriate for
consideration by each of the types of organisation identified?
Persistent Identity and Resolution (2)
Who has been providing input for the report?
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Andrew Kitchen (Becta, UK)
Paul Walk (UKOLN, UK)
Andy Powell (Eduserve, UK)
Fiona Iglesias (NDRB, UK)
Nick Poole (Collections Trust, UK)
Charles Duncan (Intrallect, UK)
John Rowling (Giunti Labs, Australia)
Lorna Campbell & Phil Barker (CETIS, UK)
Giulia Marangoni (AIE, Italy)
Nick Nicholas & Nigel Ward (Link Affiliates, Australia)
RIDIR team (UK)
Patrick Foster (Pearson Education, UK)
Paulette Schwartz (TES Connent, UK)
Professor Hwang & Dr Cho (KERIS, Korea)
Persistent Identity and Resolution (3)
Next steps:
 Report is just about to be released to contributors for their approval.
 Becta review to be completed.
 Final release document.
 The document will be circulated to the Content Ecosystem Steering group for
discussion and refinement.
 Once published, Becta is happy to share it with the Edrene members and hope
that it will provoke some collaborative discussion.
 Once ‘purdah’ has ended we will look to actively present this and other such
documentation Edrene members may find useful.
Metadata profile
Working with stakeholders towards a profile that can be used as a standard by
public sector and commercial providers, with the draft for discussion including:
 5 mandatory resource properties
 Index identifier, Title, Description, Publisher, URL Link
 5 mandatory pieces of metadata record information:
 Date, Identifier, Submitter or creator, Schema, Group Visibility
 Results will be fed into the ‘ecosystem’ pilot.
 Interested in discussing others metadata and vocabulary experiences here...
IPR & Copyright
 The UK intellectual property office is now reviewing the educational copyright
exceptions.
 Objective of review to finally add whiteboards and the use of Learning
Platforms/VLE should now be included...
 Many other useful ideas such as format shifting are still not included
 We want to allow creativity with commercial content for the next generation of
Musicians, Producers and Designers to blossom
• Looking into possible win win efficiency savings
• We are exploring standard licences for digital content, happy to discuss any
ideas or experiences others have here...
Content Packaging Application Profile (1)
Who are we working with and where has progress got us to so far?
 Working with Research Machines (RM) as a prime contractor. Some work is
being subcontracted to Colin Smythe, IMS’ Chief Specification Strategist.
 Working with UK based consultancy firm called Edicts on stakeholder
engagement
 On schedule – delivered requirements for content packaging profile based on
stakeholder engagement
 Delivery of technical specification expected at the end of March
Content Packaging Application Profile (2)
• Based upon IMS Content Packaging, incorporating support for SCORM and
SCORM runtime interaction
• Also being developed to support future alignment with Common Cartridge inclusion of Basic Learning and Teaching Interoperability and other features.
• Producing best practice guidelines for learning platforms and content providers
to support conformance.
• Producing a roadmap for future development of features that are not currently
available through other specifications – viewing to work with ADL and IMS as
this moves forward.
• If you would like to know more please contact Will Ellis. [email protected]
Whiteboards (1)
 Technical specification provided during mid 2009.
 Produced an open source code library for assisting with the persistence of
Common File Format compliant files.
 Produced a viewer application called ‘Board Viewer’ for viewing Common File
Format files and testing purposes.
 Suppliers have been working towards adoption and implementation of the new
format.
 We have created a suite of tests for assessing Common File Format
compliance.
 Initial vendors have worked with us to refine these scripts.
 Press release will be made for compliant vendors post purdah.
Whiteboards (2)
 Becta is presiding over a new ICT Services Framework for UK schools.
 This is form the basis of a new procurement facility for all schools, with
‘Building Schools for the Future’ (BSF) schools committing to use this
framework exclusively.
 Compliance with Common File Format will form part of this framework.
 EUN working group is producing guidance for European procurement, which is
set to take the Common File Format work as a key driver.
 Also producing best practice implementation guidelines aimed at European
ministries emphasising the importance of sharing and reuse of digital learning
resources for whiteboards.
Contact…
Andrew Kitchen
Senior Architect
Alex Kidd
Project Advisor
Becta
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Coventry CV4 7JJ
Becta
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Science Park
Coventry CV4 7JJ
T +44 (0)24 7679 7122
F +44 (0)24 7641 1418
E [email protected]
http://www.becta.org.uk
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F +44 (0)24 7641 1418
E [email protected]
http://www.becta.org.uk