We’ve spent the day in Manchester at the JLeRN ‘hackday’, in which various parties interested in using the Learning Registry gathered together. We were particularly keen to build on our work last week in publishing metadata into the experimental node set up by Mimas, and also to explore the various retrieval services provided. The proposed ENGrich data model depends on known URIs of visual media for Engineering education, as retrieved by the Google CSE. We were initially concerned that the LR ‘slice’ method does not accept URIs as arguments, but during the course of the day, discovered (with the help of the JLeRN team) that the /obtain?request_id seems to do what we need. Looking forward to testing this in earnest by publishing larger sets of data and mocking up an interface to present retrieved data.

We are indebted to Pat Lockley for providing the PHP code for publishing basic metadata, as it saved us reinventing the wheel.