Hello all, here's a reminder about recent and upcoming work on IEEE LOM 
. . .

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Subject: 	[LTSC-LOM:] LOM re-synch
Date: 	Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:55:01 +0100
From: 	Erik Duval <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: 	Erik Duval <[log in to unmask]>
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There has been quite a bit of activity of late in LOM space:

    * As LOM is now about 5 years old, the reaffirmation process to
      re-confirm the standard has been initiated.
    * The work om the LOM corrigenda was concluded in June. Some
      documentation can be found
      at http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/mediawiki/index.php/Lomv1.1 and
      the drafting of the "official" IEEE document is underway.
    * A new PAR (the "official" document that starts projects at IEEE)
      for mapping LOM to the abstract Dublin Core model is being drafted
      in the DCMI-LTSC task force. More details
      at http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/DCMIIEEELTSCTaskforce.
    * Over the last year or so, there has been quite a bit of discussion
      on how we want to make LOM evolve over the longer term. The time
      has come to consolidate that discussion, gather requirements and
      start thinking about how to meet those.


We will re-start a series of open, regular, synchronous discussions in 
order to first bring everybody up-to-date on these activities and then 
to progress the work. THESE MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO ALL. Feel free to 
forward this announcement to anyone that might be interested.

The first such meeting will take place on
Monday 26 November, at 17h00 UTC
(see for 
instance http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx to map 
this to your local time!)

We will use the flashmeeting system for such meetings as they enable 
anyone with a browser to participate -  there are no costs involved! If 
you have sound, then you can hear what is being said. If you can see 
video, then you can see participants with a camera. If you have a 
microphone, then you can speak to the other participants. If you have a 
webcam, then other participants can see you. In any case, you can use 
the chat facility. And: the meeting will be recorded and can be viewed 
afterwards by anyone. More details about flashmeeting 
at http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/.

The meeting next Monday will take place at
http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/fm/df41dd-10825

It might be useful to inform us via the mailing list or by email to me 
directly if you plan to participate - that helps to set expectations and 
I can try to help if you experience problems connecting. If you can't 
participate, but would like to send comments or questions to the group, 
then feel free to post them on the mailing list or send them to me 
directly. There will be regular such virtual meetings from now on and we 
can discuss the use of other tools for collaboration, either next week 
at the meeting or via the mailing list.

Looking forward to discuss All Things LOM next week! 


--Erik Duval
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/%7Eerikd>
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/wordpress/eduval/
http://slideshare.net/erik.duval/


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