I sure miss the days of supporting the H5P Kitchen project — if anything really hits the elements of the olde 5 Rs, to me, it’s the portability, platform independence, downloadability, reusability of H5P plus, the thing fe really love, built in metadata.
So when I spotted a reshare of this University Affairs online article on ChatGPT? We need to talk about LLMs my interest was in the writing — and it is a worthy read about getting beyond the AI inevitability to how we grapple with the murk of ethics.
But here is what jumped out to me in the middle of the article– OMG it’s H5P! I can from a kilometer away that’s what it is, an Interactive Hotspot Diagram.
Typical of H5P, this has a Reuse button (so you could download the .h5p source), an Embed code button (I could have inserted it here in my blog), but ones is missing… The one labeled “rights” which is actually the item’s metadata. You see, there is nothing that identifies the author of this content or how it is licensed — well until I squinted, in the image itself is © REBECCA SWEETMAN 2023. So what we have here are a fraction of the 5Rs.
Metadata, metadata, rarely loved or appreciated beyond librarians, archivists, data nerds. In the H5P Kitchen I wrote a guide to why/how this is used:
But I was curious about that LLM Hotspot, and it was 15 seconds of a web search on the title and adding “H5P” that got me to a source, of course, in the eCampusOntario H5P Studio— where we at least see the author credit, but alas, it was shared without specifying a license. Oh, I could have gotten there faster if I inspected the embed code the source is in the URL.
This is minor quibbling of course. I was tickled to see an interactive document in a web article. It’s just so close to making the best use of tools, but as the word “virtual” goes, it’s always “almost there”.
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Hi Alan,
I didn’t know about this. I’ve mostly ignored metadata when using h5p. Being embarrassed I went and edited a couple on our example site. But the ‘Rights of use’ button does not show up? Is there an incantation or setting that is needed. We are using Version 1.15.6 of the WordPress plugin, which is, afaik, up to date.
Example: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/h5pexamples/find-multiple-hotspots/
Which I’ve just added some metadata.
NB the plugin has been altered to give a shortcode for Glow Blogs embedding rather than an iFrame.
This is mostly out of personal interest. I’ve never managed to generate much interest in metadata or creative commons in discussion with colleagues…
The H5P plugin settings controlled this for all the buttons, I use the “Controlled by author- on by default”.
The rights button will not show up (I think) unless there is actually some metadata entered (overall content meta data entered from button next to Title)
Thank Alan,
We don’t seem to H5P settings. I wonder if is due to it being a multi-site setup. I can see then on a test blog but not glow blogs.
My H5P is a multisite blog, I get to the settings via the listing for H5P in the plugins for a single site. Not sure if GLOW provides that
Thanks again Alan,
After not finding that, I did what I should have at the start, followed the url. Page disabled by Administrator. I feel a feature request coming on.
Seeing that label on the can, always reminds me of M*A*S*H which we watched as family growing up. Like the episode where they save that Lamb from being served at Easter-time. And the serve a “spam lamb” right at the end which Hawkeye reveals as they go credits and play the outro music. Or this little interlude with Klinger: https://youtu.be/QlMcH1GNORs #spam (as Laurie Anderson would say about cereal boxes, what you are reading is WHAT you are eating)