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		<title>Integrated Learning environments &amp; 21st Century Learning: Activity Summary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<title>Curriculum Description: Activity Summary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Curriculum Description activity within the Technical Standards for Digital Education project, led by Nick Nicholas, was set up to support school sector uses of standards-compliant, machine-readable curriculum descriptions. The need for curricula to be machine-readable is driven by the digital context in which the curriculum is now used: lessons and assessment are now planned, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.linkaffiliates.net.au&#038;blog=7535429&#038;post=653&#038;subd=linkaffiliatesblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Content Discovery &amp; Exchange: Activity Summary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Technical Standards for Digital Education project which Link Affiliates has been involved with, as part of the Digital Education Revolution, is now concluding, and we are publishing the reports from the seven activities in the project on the Link Affiliates website. On the blog, we will summarise what each activity has achieved, in collaboration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.linkaffiliates.net.au&#038;blog=7535429&#038;post=647&#038;subd=linkaffiliatesblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SIF Updates and Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SIF Association AU recently held a two day workshop for the Data Standards Working Group, which has been working for the past couple of years on the Australian data model and specification for SIF. These are some of the highlights of the meeting: New SIF Association US Standard SIF Implementation Specification 2.4 is going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.linkaffiliates.net.au&#038;blog=7535429&#038;post=622&#038;subd=linkaffiliatesblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ISO 2146 released</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 11:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, ISO released the long-awaited third edition of the ISO 2146 standard for Registry services for libraries and related organisations. ISO 2146 is a standard of great interest to repository communities, and we have already posted on it at some length, including its use as a basis for the Australian National Data Service&#8217;s RIF-CS [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.linkaffiliates.net.au&#038;blog=7535429&#038;post=555&#038;subd=linkaffiliatesblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ADL Registries and Repositories Summit: report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) recently convened a Learning Content Registries and Repositories summit (#ADLRR2010) in Alexandria, Va., which Link Affiliates attended. (We have already posted here our position paper for the meeting.) ADL have been pioneers in developing and disseminating e-learning content; the ADL-Registry and its underlying model CORDRA have been highly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.linkaffiliates.net.au&#038;blog=7535429&#038;post=543&#038;subd=linkaffiliatesblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Position Paper: ADL Learning Content Registries and Repositories Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link Affiliates will be participating in the ADL Learning Content Registries and Repositories Summit, to be held in Washington DC on April 13-14 2010: There have been numerous learning content registry and repository projects. This summit aims to bring together participants to determine &#8220;where are we&#8221; and &#8220;what&#8217;s next&#8221; for learning content registries and repositories, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.linkaffiliates.net.au&#038;blog=7535429&#038;post=492&#038;subd=linkaffiliatesblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Global Registries Initiative (GRI) is a collaboration between the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) and counterparts in the UK (IESR) and USA (OCKHAM Project). The initiative aims to make it easier to discover research data and publications stored in disciplinary and institutional repositories. It will do so by centrally registering national registries of research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.linkaffiliates.net.au&#038;blog=7535429&#038;post=407&#038;subd=linkaffiliatesblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OASIS SWS: Search Web Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have discussed in the previous post SRU as a remote search protocol, and how it seeks to be broadly applicable by abstracting search indexes away from their native metadata formats. The new OASIS SWS (Search Web Services) standard, which is intended as the successor to SRU, goes further: it also abstracts search parameters away [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.linkaffiliates.net.au&#038;blog=7535429&#038;post=393&#038;subd=linkaffiliatesblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have mentioned in previous posts that our work with IMS LODE, among other goals, sought to profile search across different e-learning repositories, so as to be interoperable. But there is a diversity of schemas for educational metadata which such search needs to traverse (at a minimum, IEEE LOM, Dublin Core for Education, and ISO [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.linkaffiliates.net.au&#038;blog=7535429&#038;post=373&#038;subd=linkaffiliatesblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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