NSDL's Technical Schema for Paradata Exchange

An NSDL team including Katy Ginger, Susan Van Gundy, John Weatherley, and Jonathan Ostwald have created a framework for generating and sharing paradata records across resource developers, aggregators, and user platforms.

Presentations and contribution: NSDL Comm_para metadata framework

• Find out more about contributing paradata via NSDL's comm_para metadata framework at NSDL's Technical Documentation pages for paradata
• Contributing Usage Data (Paradata) and Annotations to the NSDL   (PDF - April 2011) 
• April 2011 NSDL Brown Bag on paradata

The Learning Registry community is consuming metadata about both resources and usage data, from a variety of contributors (via LR "nodes") and is developing new formats for sharing usage data that function more like social networking data than library data. Find links to documentation and technical email lists on the NSDL Learning Registry page. 

Developing Activity Stream specification for paradata exchange:

•  Paradata Cookbook, V 1.0 © Copyright 2011, Learning Registry. CC-BY-3.0