One question that we always get asked about LRMI is “who is using it?” There are two sides to this, use by search service providers and use by resource providers, this post touches on the latter.

In phase 2 of the LRMI project, various organizations were given small amounts of money to implement LRMI in their systems and workflows. Those organizations are listed on the Creative Commons web site, and Lorna is in the process of gathering together the lessons they learnt which will be reported back shortly. Perhaps more importantly, at least from the point of view of sustainability, are implementations that arise spontaneously, either by organizations with learning resources to disseminate who make a conscious decision to use LRMI, or those who in using schema.org markup find that one of the properties that LRMI added is appropriate.  Of course no one doing this is under any obligation to inform us of what they are doing, so it is harder to keep track of such use. Fortunately the Google Custom Search Engine Wilbert and I cobbled together  can be used to discover such implementations. It’s a bit hit-and-miss, you need to search for common topics (Math, English) and trawl through the results for new sites,  but it’s better than nothing.

Listed below (in alphabetical order) are the sites we’ve found, a link to a sample page with embedded schema.org / LRMI, a link to the Google Structured Data testing tool results for that page, and sometimes a note or two.

Awesome stories a digital story-based learning community
example page, testing tool result
Comment: alignment object not attached to a creative work, so not clear what is aligned.

BBC Knowledge and Learning (Beta) BBC education resources
example page, testing tool result
Comment: uses typical age range and alignments to education level and subject. Alignment object name and Url properties used when targetName and targetUrl should have been.

Brain Pop resources for US/Can K-12
example page, testing tool result
Comment: use of isBasedOnUrl. Also uses educational alignment.

Brokers of expertise State of California resources for educators
example page, testing tool result
Comment: uses several properties, but be wary of using alignment object name and url for target and of intended end user role as property of creative work not audience.

CTE Online career technical education.
example page, testing tool result
Comment: several properties used, but be wary of using alignment object name and url for target and of intended end user role as property of creative work not audience.

Learn by cam language lessons by web cam
example page, testing tool result
Comment: uses many properties, notably educationalRole done properly as a property of audience.

LearnZillion directory of resources aligned to common core
example page, testing tool result
Comment: educational use and educational alignment properties done properly.

MIT OCW OpenCourseWare from MIT
example page, testing tool result
Comment: uses typicalAgeRange

Nova Southeastern University course inventory
example page, testing tool result
Comment: educational alignment, interesting to see the use of LRMI for courses.

OER Commons an OER discovery service
example page, testing tool result
Comment: alignment object as stand-alone property

OpenLearn Open Learning from the UK OU
example page, testing tool result
Comment: example of RDFa syntax.

Of course there are others using LRMI properties in their webpages that I happened not to find (t.b.h. I didn’t spend very long looking) and more who are using them to support internal business processes that Google never sees. If you know of an interesting use of LRMI from which others might learn, post a comment below (if comments are closed, contact me).