Friday, September 02, 2005

CETIS writeup on Alt-I-Lab 2005 Demonstrators. http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content2/20050901184010 It's been eagerly awaited (at least by me!), and likely delayed because of all the other stuff going on at CETIS and the need for the good folks there to take a well-deserved break this summer, but we are all fortunate to finally get a more detailed write-up on the interoperability demos from the past Alt-i-lab sessions held in June in the U.K. While this writeup does put some more meat on the bone and help us understand more about Learning Design, Tools Interoperability Profile and repository interoperability, I can't help but think that recording some of these sessions (and maybe some screen recorded demos too) would be helpful for spreading the word and illustrating the concepts to a wider audience. Maybe next time ;-) Still, seems reason to hope that we're moving along from abstract specs to support interoperability to actual working systems, hooray! - SWL [EdTechPost] 9:56:39 PM      Google It!.

RLG-NARA Audit Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories. http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20769 Via David Mattison comes this interesting link to an effort to establish a set of guidelines for determining whether a digital repository can be certified as a trusted location for digital collections. Note that 'repositories' are being used here very much in a library-centric way, and that these may or may not apply to the same degree to learning object repositories, but some interesting things to learn from and expectations to live up to (you mean you don't want the whole collection to magically disappear in 3 years time? Damn, wish someone had told me ;-) - SWL P.S. Don't get to thinking I'm blogging again - am still underwater with work and on a self-imposed blogging hunger strike (not sure what I'm protesting yet, I'll think of something!) but these last two got me to post somehow. [EdTechPost] 9:54:40 PM      Google It!.

Google Opens Digital Library to EU [Slashdot:] -- cleverness demonstrated again -- BL 11:11:06 AM      Google It!.