Re: Education Metadata Meetup on July 30

[Stuart Sutton]

Dave's link doesn't work if you click it, but if you copy-n-paste the URL, it does.  The embedded linked somehow lopped off the 120645002545 :-)

Stuart

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Dave Gladney <dgla...@publishers.org> wrote:

Hi all,

Just wanted to let you know that we've opened registration for the Education Metadata Meetup and have also confirmed participation from Richard Culatta, Director of Office of Educational Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, and several others. We will announce the venue by the end of this week or early next. I've copied and pasted the working agenda below. The event registration page is here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/education-metadata-meetup-registration-12064500245  

Please feel free to reach out with any questions. Hope to see a lot of you next month.

-Dave

8:00: Coffee/light refreshments

8:30: Why are we here?
- Brief background on metadata (Dave Gladney, Michael Jay)
- What is the vision? (Richard Culatta)

9:00: Learning Registry and LRMI--Enabling the Vision
- Distributed metadata registries (Steve Midgley)
- The need for instructionally relevant metadata (TBD)

9:30: Show and tell (moderated by Michael Jay)

Government
- Jeanne Kitchens, ISLE, Illinois
- Elizabeth Neuman, Wisconsin 

Developers
- Thor Prichard, Clarity Innovations 

Solutions Providers
- Steve Nordmark, Knovation

Publishers
- David Grandison, BrainPOP
- Holly Cefrey, Rosen Publishing

Institutions
- Melissa Wadman & Darren Milligan, Smithsonian

11:00: Roundup

On Friday, June 13, 2014 1:52:53 PM UTC-4, Dave Gladney wrote:

Greetings,

[Apologies for the cross-post but want to make sure LRMI and LR communities see this]

Everyone here shares an interest, however tangentially, in metadata—specifically metadata that describes the instructional relevance or use of educational resources. As such, I’d like to invite you all to save the date for an Education Metadata Meetup the morning of Wednesday, July 30th in Washington, DC. We’re still working on finalizing logistics, so I’ll publish an agenda and officially open registration once we do so (hopefully sometime next week). In the meantime I wanted to get the word out so those interested can make travel plans or those who will already be in town for STATS-DC can make adjustments. We’re also looking into live streaming the event, but the goal is really to get this community in the same room to network and discuss common ideas, thoughts, concerns, etc.

This will be a free event intended to provide concrete examples of the importance of instructional metadata to those who advise on legislation to fund the development of instructional assets and those with programs that take advantage of those assets. ‘Build it and they will come’ is not an effective strategy and metadata plays a key role in making resources more discoverable and providing contextual relevance important to supporting best practices.

This will be a half-day event that includes a brief background on the importance of metadata and distributed metadata registries (the Learning Registry) followed by a "show and tell" session featuring products or projects making use of the LRMI (or other education metadata) and/or Learning Registry.

Also, if you have a project, platform, or tool that makes use of education metadata (LRMI or otherwise) or enables instructional metadata tagging and would be interested in presenting your work to content providers, developers, service providers, education agencies, foundations, and others, please contact me directly at dgladney at publishers dot org.

This event is being organized by the Association of Educational Publishers, the 501(c)(3) arm of the Association of American Publishers, and Educational Systemics as part of our work on the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI). We proudly co-lead the LRMI with Creative Commons (find out more at lrmi.net).

Thanks,

-Dave

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Dave Gladney

Director of Communications Technology/LRMI Project Manager, PreK-12 Learning Group

Association of American Publishers

325 Chestnut Street, Suite 1110

Philadelphia, PA

267-351-4329

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