Amazon is engaging OER through a new platform that will allow K–12 schools to upload, curate, and share open education resources. The site, called Amazon Inspire and currently in beta, will enable users to filter searches by category, among other features that resemble the retailing giant's consumer shopping site, reports Edweek Market Brief. Amazon Inspire is expected to go live in two to three months and will be free of charge, said Andrew Joseph, vice president of strategic relations for Amazon Education, in a session of the National Conference on Education, sponsored by AASA, the school superintendents association. Users can rate and review content, add self-published work to their collections, and upload "a school’s entire digital library that is open and freely available online," said Joseph. While the Amazon Inspire service will remain free to users, Amazon plans a sustainable model in which metadata would be tapped to recommend a book for purchase in connection with an open lesson plan, for instance. The metadata tags used in Amazon Inspire content will be derived from the Learning Registry, a nonprofit project of the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies to aggregate metadata of online resources.