Learning Resource Metadata Initiative

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The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a project to create a common vocabulary for describing educational content.

It was formed after the big three search vendors (Google, Bing and Yahoo) announced in June that they were working on a metadata framework that would be common across all search platforms and aid search engine indexing.

The idea behind the LRMI is to establish a “a lightweight vocabulary that sits on top of existing tagging schema” and it’s hoped the first version of this will be up and running by March 2012.

I think this is an exciting and innovate idea that could offer GLAM organizations new opportunities for sharing their collections with the public in a fresh digital educational context.

Head across to the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative website to find out more.

This is one idea I’ll be keeping a close eye on.