Friday, February 07, 2003

CETIS-Digital Repositories Interoperability spec approved by IMS "The latest IMS spec to reach 'final' status deals with ways to store learning objects and make them available to other people. There are quite a few specs out there that will help systems do that already, but none specifically geared to make use of the IMS Meta-Data spec. Fortunately, IMS is not in the mood to start re-inventing the wheel, and has therefore liberally borrowed from existing specs. In the much-vaunted learning object economy, where people would create, trade and use autonomous bits of online teaching material, the repository is a pretty pivotal part. Its where you submit learning objects for storage, expose them for searching and gathering by others, and from where you deliver them upon request. Ideally, you would alert other people when your repository is updated as well, but that's the part that IMS DRI doesn't do just yet." 2:15:10 PM    comment [] CETIS-IEEE to lift SCORM, IMS Content Packaging to standard status, clarifies LOM future. "IEEE's Learning and Teaching Sub Committee (LTSC) is anouncing a raft of new standards and initiatives for 2003. LOM will get new bindings, the Architecture and Reference Model and the gubbins that define SCORM are nearly standards, Competency Definitions and Digital Rights Expression Language are in various stages of completion and with a bit of luck, the ongoing copyright issue over IEEE standards might get resolved..." 2:10:49 PM    comment [] Bitzi "Bitzi is a privately-held metadata publishing company based in San Francisco. Our primary publication is the OpenBits Catalog, a collection of the best available identifying, descriptive, and editorial metadata about all kinds of digital files. We collect this metadata from our customers and volunteer contributors, manage processes which improve the metadata's reliability and usefulness over time, and then publish the metadata in a wide variety of formats. You can think of Bitzi as the "card catalog" for the heavenly jukebox, holding information about any and every media file that is ever reported to us, not just the files available on the web, or through any particular service, or through any particular sharing/distribution network." 5:52:27 AM    comment []

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