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Dev8D 2012 Challenges

JISC Observatory Lightning Interview Challenge

Dev8D participants are invited to take part in ‘lightning Interviews’ where they briefly and persuasively present their views on emerging technologies. Here is your chance to call attention to innovations that you believe can provide important benefits over the next 3 to 5 years.

Our judging panel will decide which ‘lightning Interviews’ win 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, with awards presented at the ‘Best of Dev8D’ session on the last day of the event.

First-place: £50 Amazon voucher

Second-place: £30 Amazon voucher

Third-place: £20 Amazon voucher

For more information about this challenge, please see our Guidelines for ‘Lightning Interview’ Challenge at Dev8D 2012 on the IdeaScale site where Dev8D participants can post ideas and vote on ‘star’ technologies and self-nominate themselves for interviews.


The JLeRN Experiment Paradata Challenge 2012: Exploring Data About Use and Sharing of Learning Resources

For the challenge do something with paradata for educational resources (within the broadest definition), and involve a Learning Registry node at some point in your process. Beyond that, the remit of this challenge is entirely open to your creativity. Please visit Dev8D Challenges page for complete details of the criteria and rules, etc.

Have questions about the challenge?

Throw your queries about the challenge and Learning Registry (LR) in the pre-dev8d surgery on Monday 6th February, 10:30-11:30 am. http://jlernexperiment.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/pre-dev8d-jlern-challenge-surgery/

Feel free to get in touch any other time by emailing bharti.gupta@manchester.ac.uk or syrotiuk@manchester.ac.uk

Registration

Register for the JLeRN Experiment Paradata Challenge by sending an email on bharti.gupta@manchester.ac.uk. You should receive an immediate response acknowledging your interest in the challenge along with the details of how to proceed and connect to the development environment. Please feel free to go through our blog posts which points to most of the work we have been involved in.

Few tips

What is JLeRN?

aka JISC Learning Registry Node project. Check more on the blog at http://jlernexperiment.wordpress.com/about/

What is Learning Registry?

open technology framework to which any content creator can publish, and any technology vendor (e.g. learning management system, content aggregators, or application developers) can leverage for their applications. Offers an alternative approach to learning resource discovery, sharing and usage tracking.

What is Paradata?

can be usage data, feedback, rankings, likes, etc. about the learning resources; paradata is simply used to refer to a particular kind of metadata. So traditional metadata (such as Dublin Core metadata) might describe something like this: 

<metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
 <dc:title>A Tale of Two Cities</dc:title>
 <dc:creator>Charles Dickens</dc:creator>
 <dc:language>US-en</dc:language>
</metadata>

it refers to facts about the book: what the title is, who wrote it, what language it was written in, etc.

If it is required to talk about how users interacted or used that book, use this paradata format in JSON: 

{
	"activity": {
		"actor": {
			"objectType": "teacher",
			"description": [
				"high school",
				"english"
			]
		},
		"verb": {
			"action": "taught",
			"measure": {
				"measureType": "count",
				"value": 15
			},
			"date": "2011-05-01/2011-05-31"
		},
		"object": "http://URL/to/tale-of-two-cities/"
	}
}

Basically this says "Over the course of May 2011, high school English teachers used the book 'A Tale of Two Cities' 15 times for teaching activities."


Presentation at Dev8D

Check out the slides for the session on 15 Feb, 12:40 pm on JLeRN paradata challenge at http://www.slideshare.net/dulcet_bg/jlern-paradata-challenge-at-dev8d-2012

Prizes

1. First Prize (Sponsorship up to £250 to attend the conference or other tech event of the winner’s choice or £50 Amazon voucher if you not interested in getting sponsored)

2. Runner Up Prizes (2 runner up prizes available of £50 Amazon vouchers each.)

Entries for the Challenge

Provide some basic information about your work here. Please put your entries to this challenge below this heading:

  • Name: Vani Aul
  • Title: Assistant eResources/Web Developer at University of West London
  • Description: The Idea -

It will be nice to see the implementation of this project to the library catalogue environment. For instance the book listing in a catalogue can show the following elements: how many students read that book what were the views/feedback/review of those readers any highlights/recommendations for that particular book any queries new readers can post to the catalogue which can be answered by the previous readers, etc......

  • Screencast or similar (if possible)
  • URI to working example (if possible)


  • Name: Neeta Patel
  • Title: Mimas Development Officer(University Of Manchester)
  • Description: Paper based idea submitted (registered)
  • Paper based Idea:

Idea for JLeRN challenge

The Idea

  • URI to working example (if possible)


  • Name: Ann Witbrock
  • Title: Software Developer, London
  • Description: To be submitted soon (registered)
  • Screencast or similar (if possible):
  • URI to working example (if possible)


  • Name: Emanuil Tolev
  • Title: Undergraduate Student (Aberystwyth University)
  • Description: To be submitted soon (registered)
  • Screencast or similar (if possible):
  • URI to working example (if possible)

The Jorum Developer Challenge 2012: Releasing Open Educational Resources into the Wild

Calling all developers! Jorum is offering a challenge, with prizes, as part of this year's Dev8D Conference. Are you interested in exploring new ways to extract, share, visualise, search, collate or mash up the thousands of open educational resources available in Jorum? Jorum has a challenge for you! Beyond that, the remit of this challenge is entirely open to your creativity. Please visit Jorum Blog page for complete details of the criteria and rules, etc.

Have questions about the challenge?

Throw us your queries about the Challenge and the Jorum API by emailing Ben Ryan at benjamin.ryan@manchester.ac.uk or Yogesh Patel at yogesh.patel@manchester.ac.uk

Registration

Register for the Jorum Challenge by sending an email to Ben Ryan at benjamin.ryan@manchester.ac.uk or Yogesh Patel at yogesh.patel@manchester.ac.uk. Intention to enter to be registered with Ben Ryan or Yogesh Patel by the start of Dev8D sessions on Wednesday 15 February (they will be running a Jorum API workshop on Tuesday 14 February, 14:00-16:00).

Few tips

What is Jorum?

Jorum, the free repository of OERs for UK HE and FE, is built on the open source DSpace platform, and currently provides access to over 11,000 resources. The Jorum team would like more people in our sector to be inspired by new and innovative ways for their OERs to enhance learning and teaching.

What is Jorum Read API?

Jorum’s DSpace platform offers a Read API that supports a number of ways to search for and get the content and metadata held in the repository.

You can access the Jorum Read API through following link http://jorum3.mimas.ac.uk/dspace-rest/

Find the more information about how to access the Dspace Rest API through: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/REST+API

Some example quries run through the session on 14/02/2012 at 14.00 to 16.00.

http://jorum3.mimas.ac.uk/dspace-rest/search.xml?query=gerund&detail=minimum

http://jorum3.mimas.ac.uk/dspace-rest/items/14128.xml

http://jorum3.mimas.ac.uk/dspace-rest/items/14128/metadata.xml

http://jorum3.mimas.ac.uk/dspace-rest/items/14128/bitstreams.xml

Prizes

1. First Prize (Sponsorship up to £250 to attend the conference or other tech event of the winner’s choice.)

2. Runner Up Prizes (2 runner up prizes available of £50 Amazon vouchers each.)


Entries for the Challenge

Provide some basic information about your work here. Please put your entries to this challenge below this heading:

  • Name
  • Title
  • Description
  • Screencast or similar (if possible)


Humanities Research Institute (HRI) API Challenge

For this challenge, we’d like you to do something interesting with one or more of the HRI’s APIs – for example, by providing a different view of the data or combining the data with other data / online resources.

The three APIs are documented here:-

There is some overlap between these APIs – the Connected Histories API provides access to indexes of several datasets, included those datasets used by the two other APIs but the ways in which the data can be accessed are significantly different. The associated project websites may also prove useful in understanding the requests currently supported by the APIs.

Entries should consist of a prototype, or demonstration page or a brief written suggestion. Written suggestions should make reference to one or more specific API queries. Preference will be given to those entries that demonstrate an understanding of the strengths and limitations of the selected API(s). Fundamentally our interest is in getting you to try our APIs and to see what you might be interested in doing with them.


Have questions about the challenge?

Any questions, comments or suggestions relating to the APIs, whether or not you participate in this challenge, will be gratefully received by Katherine Rogers (k.m.rogers@sheffield.ac.uk) or HRI Support (hri-support@sheffield.ac.uk).

Registration

There is no need to register for this challenge.


Prize

1. Prize: £30 Amazon Gift Voucher


Entries for the Challenge

The challenge closes on the 24th February, 2012.

Provide some basic information about your work here. Please put your entries to this challenge below this heading:

  • Name
  • Title
  • Description
  • Details of your entry. If you're planning to submit a prototype or demonstration page, either put the code in a open source repository / provide a URI / provide us with an alternative way of accessing your demo. If you want to provide a written summary of an idea, you can either paste it her or provide us with a link to a document.


  • Name:Neeta Patel
  • Title Mimas Development Officer(University Of Manchester)
  • Description: Graphically visualize the REFINE node details of The Connected Histories API.
  • My prototype URI is http://ukpmc1.mimas.ac.uk/Dev8D/result.php
  • Email: neeta.patel@manchester.ac.uk
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