This document discusses standards and technologies for discovering educational content. It outlines the objectives, deliverables, and infrastructure being developed in Work Package 2 to support harvesting, searching, querying, and exchanging educational content and vocabularies according to standards. Key components include a federated search tool, registry of learning repositories, vocabulary bank, transformation tools, and technical documentation. The overall goal is to foster adoption of standards for discovering educational resources.

1. WP2
Implementing Standards
for Content Discovery
Joris Klerkx, Bram Vandeputte, Gonzalo Parra, Erik Duval
K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~hmdb
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be
Budapest, September 21-23, 2009
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4. Objective of WP2
Foster adoption of Standards and Specifications of
Educational Content discovery:
Harvesting
Federated search
Querying
Vocabulary exchange
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5. Technologies & Standards
IEEE LOM, DC
XVD, VDEX, ZTHES, SKOS
SQI, SPI, SRU/SRW, OAI-PMH
CQL, PLQL, LRE-QL
SCORM, IMS CC, IMS CP
IMS QTI
CORDRA
CC
ISO/IEC 19796
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6. Deliverables
D2.1 Federated Search & Harvesting
D2.2 Registry of Learning Repositories
D2.3 Vocabulary Bank
D2.4 Wiki with material to support training and
dissemination
D2.5 Infrastructure and services v1.0
D2.6 Infrastructure and services v1.0 (M18)
D2.7 Infrastructure and services v1.0 (M27)
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7. v1.0
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8. Harvester
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9. Validator & VBE
LRE v4.0
Core, recommended,
minimal
Integrated with Vocabulary
Bank of Education
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10. Transform
Automatic transformation of LRE v3.0 to LRE v4.0 in
both ways
Integrated in Harvester
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11. Identify
Create
Read
Update
Delete
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12. Content providers
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13. Technical Wiki
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/aspect-wiki/index.php/
D2.4

14. Registry v1.0
SPI
SQI OAI-PMH
Data Model Binding together with IMS LODE
working on examples of protocol descriptions
CEN WS/LT Proposal
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15. Vocabulary Maintenance
Management
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/aspect-wiki/index.php/
Vocabulary_Maintenance_Management
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16. Agenda WP2 meeting
Current WP2 developments
Discussion about the links between the ASPECT services and the
ASPECT service center (D4.7)
The ASPECT Registry & Registry Data Model
Handle Service discussion
Vocabulary Management
Application service registry
Definition of and planning of work for ASPECT infrastructure and
service v2.0
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17. Thanks
Questions?
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