Monthly Archive for September, 2005

Pardon my language,
but after wrestling with the LOM for real
over the last few months
I now fucking HATE metadata. Really.
Sorry. It had to be said.

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.

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