Work Package #1 [Completed]

Outcomes

LRMI 1.1 specification transferred to DCMI website: http://dublincore.org/dcx/lrmi-terms/1.1/
LRMI 1.1 RDF specification complete as DCMI Community Specification: http://dublincore.org/dcx/lrmi-terms/

Introduction & Charge

IN GENERAL, It is the intention of this initial work package of the LRMI Task Group is to put forward the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) 1.1 specification as a DCMI Community Recommendation of the DC-Education Community for review and approval by the new Community Specifications Committee of the DCMI Technical Board. The intention of the Task Group process is to align the LRMI integration with DCMI procedures to guarantee the outcome is consistent with DCMI principles and practices. Those principles and practices include conformance to DCMI namespace policy^[1] (as amended), page persistence policy^[2] (as amended) and open development and decision making that serve to guarantee the reliability and acceptance of the specification through principled maintenance and community-driven further development. The DCMI/LRMI TG will be a permanent Task Group with work packages defining particular outcomes and time-frames as defined from time-to-time through open DC-Education community input.

Scope

LRMI is both: (a) an informal community loosely defined by sets of participants on the two LRMI Google Groups; and (b) a specification defining a terse set of classes and properties. The work of this particular work package of the LRMI Task Group pertains to the LRMI specification and touches only tangentially on the LRMI community.
- NOTE: Both DCMI and LRMI operate open communities and the boundaries between the two are totally porous.
Transition the canonical LRMI specification from LRMI.net to dublincore.org (with suitable cross-references where appropriate).
Transition of the documentation supporting the LRMI specification from LRMI.net to dublincore.org.
- NOTE: The transition involves a faithful replication of LRMI 1.1.
Currently, the LRMI specification exists as a set of tables informally defining LRMI classes and properties. The Task Group will create an RDF schema of the LRMI specification assigning property URI to comport with namespace policy and support principled curation and further development as determined by the community;
- Determination and inclusion of formal class and property references to associated schema (schema.org, IEEE LOM, DCTERMS etc.).
- HTML/RDFa?

Deliverables

(Complete) Create the necessary Jiscmail list/forum for archived communications of the new LRMI Task Group.
(Complete) Creation of both wiki.
(Complete) DCMI website pages for the LRMI Task Group.
(Complete) Precisely replicate on the DCMI website the content of the narrative tables (HTML) embodying the informal statement of the LRMI 1.1 specification from lrmi.net.
(Complete) In consultation with the Technical Board, determine the PURL that will resolve to a canonical RDF expression of the 1.1 specification:
- http://purl.org/dcx/lrmi-terms ("dcx" is the namespace reserved for RDF serializations of DCMI Community Specifications) pursuant to a proposal for a revised DCMI namespace policy.^[3]
(Complete) Prepare HTML replication of the current 1.1 specification for the DCMI Website as the new canonical statement of the specification thus bringing it within the context of the DCMI page persistence policy (see http://dublincore.org/dcx/lrmi-terms/).
(Complete) Create an RDF expression of the canonical 1.1 to conform with the DCMI namespace policy (with formal references to related specifications including IEEE LOM and DCMI education extensions (DCTERMS)).
- Consistent with the DCMI proposal, the PURL URI would always reference the most resent "version" (snapshot?) of the specification with the internal representation being in time-stamped directories--e.g.,
- http://dublincore.org/dcx/lrmi-terms/2014-10-24/index.shtml (human-readable)
- http://dublincore.org/dcx/lrmi-terms/2014-10-24/lrmiterms.ttl
- This could follow the pattern of DCTERMS and be published through the specification webpage using RDFa markup, content negotiation etc..
(Transferred to Work Package #2) Develop a short-term plan for coordinating communications between the new DC-Education Jiscmail list/forum list and the LRMI open Google Group.

Schedule

Given the timeframe to the end of the current LRMI funding, the transition work package is to be expedited.

Beginning on: October 23, 2014

Ending on: March 20, 2015

Dependencies

None

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