This news from Elena may interest some of you ...
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2) CEN/ISSS Work on Simple Query Interface has started
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Together with the ARIADNE consortium and the European Schoolnet, the ELENA
consortium has successfully initiated the standardization work on a simple query
interface for learning object repositories. The goal of this initiative, which
is hosted by the CEN/ISSS, is to develop a common communication framework for
exchanging queries between heterogeneous educational nodes. We consider this
work as an important milestone for building so called "Smart Spaces for
Learning". The first release of the specification will be announced in this
mailing list(*).
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More information on Elena can be found here http://www.elena-project.org/ and
public draft 0.51 of SQI can be found at:
http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at/e-learning/interoperability/
[*NB: that's not actually *this* mailing list, it's the Elena mailing list,
which you can find under the "contacts" link on the Elena website.]
Phil.
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Phil Barker Learning Technology Advisor
ICBL, School of Mathematics and Computer Science
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
Tel: work - 0131 451 3278 home - 0131 221 1352
Web: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/
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