{"id":215,"date":"2009-08-11T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T07:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2009\/08\/11\/open-content-and-libraries\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T07:58:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T07:58:16","slug":"open-content-and-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2009\/08\/11\/open-content-and-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Open content and libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was really interested in Tony Hirst&#8217;s recent post <a href=\"http:\/\/ouseful.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/10\/open-educational-resources-and-the-university-library-website\/\">Open educational Resources and the University Library Website<\/a>, which raised something which had never occurred to me and I am not sure why.\u00a0 At the end of the Mosaic project one of our key conclusions was &#8220;maximise discoverability, put open content where people already look for things&#8221; and somehow in writing this, immersed in the web and web 2.0 and thinking of google and flikr I overlooked one of the\u00a0 key places where people already look for things are library sites.<\/p>\n<p>It still seems to me the two biggest barriers to wide-scale uptake\u00a0 of OERs remains 1)\u00a0 licenses and 2) the ability to find useful OERs in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>So I agree with Tony, this is something we have to resolve, and soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was really interested in Tony Hirst&#8217;s recent post Open educational Resources and the University Library Website, which raised something which had never occurred to me and I am not sure why.\u00a0 At the end of the Mosaic project one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2009\/08\/11\/open-content-and-libraries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,39,65,27,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jisc","category-mosaic","category-open-educational-resources","category-open-source","category-openspires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}