1. Solving the OER discovery problem: the DiscoverEd prototype Ahrash N Bissell andNathan Yergler

2. Statement of the problem

Smaller audience sizes -> smaller auto-generated datasets (e.g., via links).

3. Many valuable metadata fields are ill suited to automatic discovery. 4. Problem of authority. Who says? 5. Scalability. The OER movement is a global effort. 6. No universal standards for ontologies, and probably never will be. 7. One view of the current licensing landscape 8. Structured data requirements for enhanced search and disocvery 9. Different curators. Different types and numbers of structured data (if any). 10. RDFa as a core element of a solution

Independence and extensibility

11. Human- and machine-readable formats are the same (don't repeat yourself) 12. Visual locality 13. Remix friendliness 14. Key attributes of theDiscoverEd prototype

Built on the basis of curators.

15. Populated using feeds. 16. Integrated full-text and structured data indices. 17. Open for any querying and data export. 18. Refinements are extensible. 19. Highly customizable on both front and back ends. 20. The DiscoverEd prototype 21. 22. 23. Where do we go from here?

Tracking provenance.

24. Streamlined customization templates. 25. Widgets for community-acquired metadata. 26. Personal search and communities of practice.