Tuesday, April 01, 2003

Quality Assurance for Digital Learning Object Repositories: The Power of Metadata "Much work has already been done within the learning technology community to assure metadata quality. So far this effort has focused on the development of the metadata infrastructure, in the form of standards and specifications, and the implementation of this infrastructure within repositories. There has been an assumption that metadata creation will be straightforward. However, repositories are beginning to report significant difficulties in obtaining good quality metadata from their contributors and it is increasingly apparent that the issue of metadata creation warrants attention. This paper draws together the growing body of evidence, both from within the learning technology community and from related disciplines, to scope the issue of metadata creation and to identify questions for further investigation. It is anticipated that this will form the basis for a programme of work that will inform future policy development in this important area." 10:31:53 PM    comment [] Tim Ewald's Spoutlet: Pushing the Envelope "MSDN finally has official RSS feeds!" 7:36:14 PM    comment [] Maven - Maven "Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on the concept of a project object model (POM) in that all the artifacts produced by Maven are a result of consulting a well defined model for your project. Builds, documentation, source metrics, and source cross-references are all controlled by your POM. " 6:45:50 PM    comment [] Grub's Distributed Web Crawling Project "Improve Web Search from Your Desktop! 187 clients running - crawling 23,970,411 URLs in the last 24 hours. Grub uses the power of distributed computing to build the best search on the Web. It automatically crawls the Web in the background, borrowing your computer's spare clock cycles, so you won't even notice it's there. The download is quick, you control how much you crawl, and the cool screensaver shows you the real-time progress your computer is making. You can even compare your stats to other Grubsters in the project! Help perfect the search engine. Join the Grub project today!" 6:33:39 PM    comment [] Unit Testing Software Downloads "Testing Framework (xUnit, unit testing) software is now hosted via anonymous FTP on XProgramming.com. Please note that some users have difficulty accessing anonymous FTP from behind firewalls. Links on the left side are direct file downloads where possible. Recent Additions: C, C , Flash, Web Applications, AppleScript, HTML, Manage JUnit Test Data, JavaScript, Linux Kernel, RealBasic, WebObjects, XML " 9:32:06 AM    comment [] XSLTunit "A XSLTunit set of tests is a XSLT transformation that imports the tested stylesheet and xsltunit.xsl," 9:30:47 AM    comment [] "XMLUnit allows you to assertXMLEquals("", ""); or and you can do this assertXMLEquals(xmlFile, anotherXmlFile); and this assertXMLEquals(xmlStream, xmlFile); Compare XML in files, or in Strings. Extract specific content using XPath expressions or perform XSL transformations. Even treat badly formed HTML as XML so it can be tested too. " 9:10:57 AM    comment []

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