The document discusses DiscoverEd, an open source search tool for open educational resources (OER) that are labeled with Creative Commons licenses. It describes how DiscoverEd uses curators to identify and add metadata to educational resources, which are then indexed using Nutch and can be queried based on metadata fields. Current work focuses on improving provenance tracking of curator metadata and developing tools to help curators publish more linked data descriptions of their resources.
Good afternoon. My name is Nathan Yergler, and I'm Chief Technology Officer at Creative Commons. This afternoon I'm going to talk about a semantic enhanced search engine for education we've been working on called DiscoverEd. It's built on commodity hardware and open source tools, and the software can be used for other domains. I'm going to talk about some approaches we tried and rejected, and give you some information on tools you can use for building your own semantic search without investing in your own server farm.
