[Cross-posting to LRMI and Learning Registry Collaborate and Dev Groups, as I thought all communities would be interested]
Greetings LRMI friends,
As many of you may know, the grant that supported AEP's and Creative Commons' work on the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) officially ended on September 30. One of our last deliverables as co-leaders was to put in place a plan we felt would best ensure the long-term success of the project, which we defined as sustainability for both the LRMI specification and the community around it. As such, we are pleased to announce the transfer of LRMI to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Details of the transfer are below and also posted online at http://www.lrmi.net/lrmi-transfers-stewardship, and more information will be available on the Dublin Core website and lrmi.net over the next few days and weeks. In the meantime, please feel free to contact either of us with questions.
We've enjoyed our time moving forward this most important work, and we're thrilled to pass it on to such a well-respected governance group.
Best wishes,
Dave & Cable
Dave Gladney LRMI Project Manager, AEP- - - - -
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) Transfers Stewardship
October 23, 2014 – Effective today, leadership and governance of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), an education metadata project developed to improve discoverability and delivery of learning resources, have transferred from the Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI).
This long-planned transfer represents a logical next step for the LRMI since the project has reached the end of its initial scope of work. DCMI will take the leadership role in advancing the project into its next phase with AEP and CC engaged as active LRMI community members.
"Creative Commons and AEP are happy to add this governance transfer to the long list of successes we've achieved together on the LRMI project," said Cable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons. "After a long and careful evaluation process, the LRMI leadership identified a candidate in DCMI that is well-established and highly respected in the metadata sector and will carry on the LRMI's spirit of transparency and community involvement."
"AEP has enjoyed the opportunity to work alongside our partners Creative Commons the past three years to get the LRMI effort off the ground, build a community of practice, and finally, to establish a plan for long-term sustainability for the project," said Dave Gladney, Project Manager of the AEP LRMI project, which has been housed at the Association of American Publishers since the merger of AEP and AAP in July 2013. "With this transfer, we're confident that we're leaving the LRMI with the ideal steward for long-term success."
"DCMI is pleased to assume stewardship of LRMI at this key, long-planned transition in its development," said Eric Childress, DCMI Governing Board Chair. "Meeting the metadata needs of the education and training community has been a goal of DCMI since the founding of its Education Community in 1999. DCMI has played encouraging, advisory roles in development of the LRMI specification from the inception of Phase I technical development in 2011 under the leadership of AEP and Creative Commons. DCMI is now poised to provide LRMI with both a permanent home that assures the long-term sustainability of the specification and an open, collaborative context for future community-driven development."
More information about the transfer and the project follows.
Background
The LRMI began in 2011 shortly after the announcement of Schema.org, a search engine-backed standard for tagging content on the web. AEP and Creative Commons, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, set out to extend the general Schema.org hierarchy with a lightweight set of metadata properties that could describe the instructional intent of a web page, resource or piece of content. The resulting LRMI specification version 1.1 was accepted as an official extension of Schema.org in April 2013. Additionally, AEP and Creative Commons have worked closely together throughout the past three years to meet dozens of important project milestones.
The third and final Gates-funded phase of the project focused on long-term sustainability and success. Among other Phase III projects, the LRMI leadership team has worked over the past six months to identify the ideal next-phase steward for the LRMI specification. This process included surveying the LRMI community, identifying potential candidates, measuring each candidate against a list of agreed-upon requirements and vetting candidates through a series of interviews.
Why DCMI was chosen
DCMI was chosen based on its status as a well-known, well-respected name in the metadata space; its open governance structure, which closely aligns with the open spirit of the LRMI; and its ongoing connection to the LRMI through the involvement of DCMI's Managing Director and Education Community chair, Stuart Sutton, on the LRMI Technical Working Group.
DCMI's next-stage priorities
DCMI stewardship of the LRMI specification will include:
For more information:
Dave Gladney, LRMI Project Manager, AEP (dgla...@publishers.org)
Cable Green, Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons (ca...@creativecommons.org)
Stuart Sutton, Managing Director, DCMI (sasu...@dublincore.net)
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About the Association of Educational Publishers
The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) is the 501(c)(3) arm of the Association of American Publishers. At the inception of the LRMI in 2011, AEP was an independent organization serving the educational resource community with programs, events, advocacy, and thought leadership. In July of 2013, AEP merged with the AAP School Division to form the PreK-12 Learning Group. Most of AEP's programs were transferred over to the newly-formed Learning Group pursuant to the merger, but LRMI projects and administration of grant funding continued on under the 501(c)(3).
About the Association of American Publishers
The members of AAP are building the future of publishing. AAP represents America's premier creators of high-quality entertainment, education, scientific and professional published content. They include commercial and not-for-profit organizations, scholarly societies, university presses, educational technology companies and digital start-ups. These nearly 450 organizations dedicate the creative, intellectual, financial and technological investments to bring great ideas to life and deliver content to the world's diverse audiences in all the ways they seek it.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) is a globally-focused nonprofit organization dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. Creative Commons provides free licenses and other legal tools to give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions and get credit for their creative work while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make specific uses of it.
About Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
DCMI is a global community that has played key roles in the development of best practices in metadata modeling, design and implementation since 1995. The DCMI community has developed and maintains some of the major languages of description used on the Web and in systems. DCMI's principles of operation are open consensus building, international scope and participation, neutrality of purpose and business models, neutrality of technology, and a cross disciplinary focus. DCMI is a project of ASIS&T, a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and is supported through membership programs for both individuals and organizations.
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Hi Dave and Cable:
I echo Steve. This is an excellent solution. I also want to thank both of you individually, and Creative Commons and AEP for your excellent stewardship of LRMI for the last few years. I look forward to many other collaborations with you in the future.
Thanks,
Brandt
From: lr...@googlegroups.com [mailto:lr...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Midgley
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Congratulations on sorting this solution out! Sounds like a big win for the educational metadata community. Thanks for sharing this information and I'll look forward to supporting this, as I'm sure many others will too.
Best,
Steve
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Dave Gladney <dgla...@publishers.org> wrote:
[Cross-posting to LRMI and Learning Registry Collaborate and Dev Groups, as I thought all communities would be interested]
Greetings LRMI friends,
As many of you may know, the grant that supported AEP's and Creative Commons' work on the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) officially ended on September 30. One of our last deliverables as co-leaders was to put in place a plan we felt would best ensure the long-term success of the project, which we defined as sustainability for both the LRMI specification and the community around it. As such, we are pleased to announce the transfer of LRMI to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Details of the transfer are below and also posted online at http://www.lrmi.net/lrmi-transfers-stewardship, and more information will be available on the Dublin Core website and lrmi.net over the next few days and weeks. In the meantime, please feel free to contact either of us with questions.
We've enjoyed our time moving forward this most important work, and we're thrilled to pass it on to such a well-respected governance group.
Best wishes,
Dave & Cable
Dave GladneyLRMI Project Manager, AEP
Cable Green