Presented in London, 2011-06-30, at http://www.opentothepublic.org.uk

1. Open Data Standards for Education and Training Simon Grant JISC CETIS “ Open to the Public”: BCS OSSG Meeting London, 2011-06-30

3. development through open decision-making procedure available to all

4. free access, use, copy and distribution

6. But not really black-and-white

8. "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License"

10. many communication and security protocols etc

11. freely available

12. neutral licence but prefers royalty-free

13. can create derivative works

15. HTML5 , RDFa ,

16. Widgets http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/WidgetSpecs

17. freely available

18. royalty-free license policy

19. but no derivative works

21. IMS keeps full rights to allow or disallow derivative specifications

23. Possibilities may exist for " patent ambush " (see Wikipedia)

26. Government policy for mandating open standards

28. “ Yes we can!” (to quote Bob the Builder)

29. How?

32. 2010 slight revision tidying up loose ends

33. 2011 starting to bring it into the European arena towards standardisation

34. The rest through recommendations (see below...)

35. Similar earlier experiences and challenges with XCRI , another community-driven project

36. Suggestions or recommendations for how to work towards effective open standards including references to experiences with Leap2A

38. Have a licence that allows derivative works, as with OWFa 1.0

40. Leap2A being used by Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (UK) portfolio interoperability project

42. without requiring ongoing revenue, hence freely available

43. consider e.g. Publicly Available Specification

48. Who is going to decide when to offer the spec to an official standards body?

49. Those who adopt deserve some control over the future, e.g. revisions

50. But how exactly to do it, in a self-sustaining manner?

53. Needs ongoing effort = money from somewhere

55. Modest JISC funding has worked well for projects involving UK HE

59. For ongoing publicity

61. ensure UK open standards are not struck down by ENs

62. contribute UK view to European process and try to get it incorporated

63. work in conjunction with existing partners in the Workshop on Learning Technologies ( CEN page )

66. my JISC CETIS blog

67. Gmail, Twitter, Skype, etc.: asimong

68. my home page