OSR – Open Science Resources: Towards the development of a Shared Digital Repository for Formal and Informal Science Education

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The OSR portal gives various users access to digital resources from top science centres and museums. Teachers, museum visitors and students can find materials for all their learning needs.

Open Science Resources (OSR) aims to create a shared repository of scientific digital resources, which are currently dispersed in science museums and science centres throughout Europe, and to make them widely and coherently available, searchable and usable in formal and informal learning situations.

A highly accessible and well organised portal, equipped with multi-field searching tools, provides an easy and attractive interface to access the repository. Through the OSR portal, users are able to view the digital collections of European science centres and museums, alongside a storyline that connects different objects that are physically kept in different European museums.

The OSR resources are available in eight European languages. Users of the portal can search for separate Learning Objects or follow Educational Pathways that connect different objects tagged with semantic metadata. Social tagging tools allow users to contribute keywords openly to the resources, and the portal also facilitates user engagement with the content of the museums and science centers. By accessing the portal through hand-held devices, such as PDAs or smart-phones, visitors can gain information about exhibits and also store information about their visit.

 

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