Confolio in
Organic.Edunet
Hannes Ebner, KTH
Matthias Palmér, UU
SLU, Uppsala 2009-01-16
Co-funded by the European Commission
eContentplus programme

Confolio
• Electronic portfolio
• Web application frontend
• Fine-grained rights management
• Digital resources: files and references
• Other resources: books, concepts,
contacts, events
• Resources are described with metadata
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Use Cases
• Institutional archive
• Personal portfolio
• Course construction
– Portfolios and folders: aggregation of
learning resources, learning modules, e.g.
providing learning materials for a course
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The Organic.Edunet Metadata
• Mandatory fields
– Title, description, language
– Resource type, copyright information/cost
• Recommended fields
– End user role, age range, context
– Format, ontology terms (vocabulary)
– ...
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Vocabulary
• Part of the metadata
• Necessary for
advanced search
• Based on and
enhancing existing
vocabularies
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Typical Learning Objects
• Multimedia content
– Pictures, movies, sound files
• Documents
– Handbooks, tutorials, publications
• Presentations
• References
– Links to web sites, external resources
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Content Sources
• Organic.Edunet Consortium
• FAO Capacity Building Portal
• Bio@gro
• Soil Association
• Organic Agriculture Information Access
• Organic ePrints
• ...
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Organic.Edunet
Architecture
• Repository Tools
– Confolio and its backend
• Learning Repository Management
– Harvests Repository Tools
– Provides advanced Search
• Portal
– Community features, advanced search
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Users
Web Portal Module
Organic.Edunet’s
Semantic Services Module
Learning Repositories
BioAgro
ENOAT
Content
Providers
Learning Repositories Management Module
Ecologica
Intute
Public
Resources
School
Learning Content
Exchange Module
Federation of Learning
Content Repositories
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Backend / Interfaces
• Reusing existing metadata using
harvesting protocols
• Harvesting and querying protocols
– Makes federations possible
• Easy to use programming interface
– Own user interfaces possible
– Integration with 3rd party applications
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