Aspect-iCoper-CEN/ISSS WSLT joint workshop on publish interoperability

The CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technologies has initiated work on standardising a Simple Publishing Interface for Learning Object Repositories.

The objective is to develop a practical approach towards interoperability between repositories for learning and applications that consume or produce educational materials. Examples of repositories for learning are educational brokers, knowledge pools, institutional repositories, streaming video servers, etc.

Initial agenda topics include

• reports on publishing interoperability experiments
• discussions of how the SPI work relates to other publishing projects e.g. SWORD, APP, PENS, SRU Update, OAI-ORE,...
• next steps and collaboration

Nature: During the event, the focus will be on short presentations, demonstrations, comparisons with related work, discussion and active interaction with the audience. It is our hope to enable a discussion about the factors that are critical for having publish interoperability between tools that produce educational resources and places where resources can be ingested.

Logistics:
Participation is free and open to anyone with an interest in this subject. For registration, please notify on of the organizers or send an e-mail to stefaan.ternier@ou.nl

When: Tuesday March 3, 2009, 1 pm
Where: University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
(hotel and travel information will be sent after registration)

Organisers:
David Massart, European Schoolnet
Stefaan Ternier, Open University of the Netherlands
Michael Totschnig, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration