www.lrmi.net
LRMI Proof of Concept
Progress Report
LRMI PoC Goals
• Create diverse body of LRMI tagged resources from
variety of publishers
• Feed search/discovery tool that provides visual PoC
of LRMI tagging
• Document best practices for tagging
• Support publisher and LRMI’s TWG “real world”
application and learning
www.lrmi.net
LRMI PoC Players
• Dave Gladney, AEP – LRMI Project Manager
• Michael Jay, Educational Systemics – Project Lead,
LRMI Proof of Concept
• Teila Evans, Educational Systemics – Project
Manager, LRMI
• Eric Weiss, Agilix – Project Manager, LRMI Tagger
and Search
www.lrmi.net
PoC Phase I Participants
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Better Lesson
CK-12
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Learning.com
Learning Station
McGraw-Hill
Pearson
PCI Educational Publishing
Rosen
www.lrmi.net
PoC Phase II Participants
• 22 actively pursuing Phase II
• 450+ resources already submitted for Phase 2
• 4 new publishers engaged in Phase 2
Publisher Submission Documents
• Addition of the GroupSize property
•
Not part of the 1.0 spec
• Clarified definition for the InteractivityType
property
• Changed the order of some of the properties
to support csv import to Tagger
PoC Content Curating Stats
• 2 hours formal training with content
curating team on LRMI and tagging tool
• Average 15 min/resource*
• 60% in tagging tool
• 40% for prep, QA, XML post, notes
• Currently 616 resources evaluated, tagged,
and aligned
* Resources submitted by publishers with varying amounts and quality
of metadata as starting point
www.lrmi.net
PoC Content Curating Insights
•
Leveraged “recommended vocabulary” choices
included in Tagger tool
•
Increased speed and consistency of tagging
•
Still added optional items not “pre-listed”
www.lrmi.net
“Real World” Application
“In order to arrive at a useful schema, it is necessary to
take into consideration the educational criteria that K-12
publishers and educators value.”
June 15 posting to LRMI discussion board
LRMI has balanced this at
tagging level that is comfortable
and achieves “scale”
www.lrmi.net
“Real World” Application
“There needs to be a property to indicate the main subject
area (aka curriculum area) of the product.”
June 15 posting to LRMI discussion board
‘about’ property in Schema.org
accomplishes this goal
www.lrmi.net
“Real World” Application
“Requiring publishers to correlate their products to state
or Common Core standards discriminates against
publishers who cannot afford the cost and/or time to do
so.”
June 15 posting to LRMI discussion board
NO REQUIREMENT, ONLY OPTIONS. In
theory, the standard form of tagging
should reduce the cost, especially if
CCSS is focus of alignment
www.lrmi.net
LRMI Tagger Update
www.lrmi.net
How you can use LRMI Tags
There are two parts of this equation:
1. Discovery
LRMI is designed to make your content
discoverable
2. Commerce
Once your content is discovered by
teachers who need it, its your job to
support their purchase process
How you can use LRMI Tags
2. Publish
1. Tag
Use the Open
Source Tagger to
create LRMI
metadata for
your educational
resources.
Tagger output is
pushed to The
Learning Registry
and embedded in
your page(s) to
make your content
much more easily
discoverable.
Your Data
Learning Registry
3. Search
Your content
tagged
with LRMI
metadata is
more easily
discovered,
accessed and
purchased.
Tagger Status and Features on Version 1.0
• Completed multiple rounds of development
gathering feedback on look, feel and features
• CSV Import dramatically eases content entry
process
• Now supports matching of dot notation to CCSS
• Save will include options to save to CSV and HMTL
5.0 microdata for use in other applications and
websites
LRMI Tagger Demo – Latest Release
www.lrmi.net
Next Steps: LRMI & Dependant Projects
Schema.org adoption
• The LRMI working group recently reached resolution
on two key issues that were holding up proposal
1. Audience proposal at Schema.org level results
in educationalAudience property in LRMI
2. New educationalFramework property under
educationalAlignment allows tagger to
indicate the framework or authority that
defines the alignment (i.e., CCSS)
• Greg Grossmeier (TWG Lead) has a note in to Dan
Brickley for ETA on next Schema.org revision
www.lrmi.net
Next Steps: LRMI & Dependant Projects
SLC and Learning Registry
• Shared Learning Collaborative (slcedu.org)
• Shared technology services (data store, APIs,
content search) to enable personalized learning
• Focus on CCSS-aligned materials
• 5 states launching in December:
CO, IL, MA, NY, NC
• 4 more states (DE, GA, KY, LA) and official “hard
launch” of SLC in March at SxSW
www.lrmi.net
Next Steps: LRMI & Dependant Projects
SLC and Learning Registry
• Learning Registry
• SLC will have a node in LR
• Continued development
www.lrmi.net
Reading Your Tagger Data Files
Alphabet Soup
1. XML – Output from phase one of LRMI tagging
2. JSON – Current output format from Tagger
(preferred format for Learning Registry)
3. CSV – To enable audit and possible import into your
own web publishing systems (coming soon)
4. HTML microdata – For embedding in your web
pages via script (also coming soon)
www.lrmi.net
Reading Your Tagger Data Files
XML
www.lrmi.net
Reading Your Tagger Data Files
XML
<xml>
<item title="Pescar 20 I"
url="http://platform.learning.com/interface/teachersky/default.aspx#stepnam
e=curriculumitemdetails&id=a5156564-f02f-4b52-905a2f31a72bee62%7cen">
<LRMI>
<meta itemscope = "itemscope" itemtype =
"http://schema.org/WebPage">
<meta itemscope = "itemscope" itemtype =
"http://schema.org/Language" itemprop = "language">
<meta itemprop = "name" content = "Spanish" />
</meta>
…
www.lrmi.net
Reading Your Tagger Data Files
XML
<meta itemprop = "topic" content = "Number and Operations" />
…
<meta itemscope = "itemscope" itemtype =
"http://schema.org/Organization" itemprop = "publisher">
<meta itemprop = "name" content = "Learning.com" />
</meta>
<meta itemprop = "useRightsURL" content =
"http://platform.learning.com/Content/LicenseAgreements/LCOM/UserAgree
ment2011-10-03.htm" />
<meta itemprop = "IntendedEndUserRole" content = "Student" />
<meta itemprop = "TypicalAgeRange" content = "2-5" />
<meta itemprop = "TypicalAgeRange" content = "5-8" />
www.lrmi.net
Reading Your Tagger Data Files
XML
<meta itemprop = "EducationalUse" content = "Drill & Practice" />
<meta itemscope = "itemscope" itemtype =
"http://schema.org/AlignmentObject" itemprop = "educationalAlignment">
<meta itemprop = "alignmentType" content = "Teaches" />
<meta itemprop = "name" content = "Math.1.OA.5" />
<meta itemprop = "url" content =
"http://corestandards.org/2010/math/content/1/OA/5" />
<meta itemprop = "description" content = "Relate counting to
addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).
" />
…
</LRMI>
</item>
</xml>
www.lrmi.net
Reading Your Tagger Data Files
JSON
"itemprop": "intendedEndUserRole",
"content": "Student"
},
{
"itemprop": "educationalUse",
"content": "Discovery Learning"
},
{
"itemprop": "educationalUse",
"content": " Reading"
},
{
"itemprop": "educationalUse",
"content": " Comparing"
www.lrmi.net
Your Next Steps
1. Keep submitting that metadata!
2. Tryout the Tagger application
• We’re here to help you!
3. Work to determine work flow in your organization
4. End of February ’13, AEP transitions from:
• Tagging services provider to
• Provider of support for publishers tagging
5. Program for service providers rolls out in late
October
www.lrmi.net
Ask us
• We’re here to help you…
• Sell LRMI within your organizations
• Provide support in finding ways to integrate
this into your existing processes
• Facilitate access to technical resources if
needed
• To do this we can…
• Present to you and those teams with whom
you work
• Review and provide feedback on metadata you
are creating
• Provide information to show benefit to your
organization for participation
www.lrmi.net
Questions
Dave Gladney
dgladney@AEPweb.org
Teila Evans
teila@edusystemics.com
www.lrmi.net