With all this talk of LOMs, interoperability, and XML, I'm wondering if there are any practical examples of repositories making their learning object metadata available to the wide world in machine-readable format, presumably as XML files? I ask because I'm putting together a simple RLO 'repository' (well, database really) and would like to pull in titles at such repositories as MERLOT and the Wisconsin Online Resource Center. I'm a little out of my depth here as my XML expertise is at beginner level right now, but I'm guessing that I should be able to write, say, PHP scripts to parse XML files conforming to a LOM so that the LO titles and metadata appear in the database. Similarly, I'd like to write scripts to expose our RLOs (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlos/) to the world.
However, whilst I know of a few repositories, I don't see any 'interfaces' that can be hooked into on their sites. Is anyone here involved in practical projects linking repositories into distributed LO databases?
Cheers
Fred
Fred Riley
Learning Technologist
Room C57, School of Nursing
University of Nottingham
Queen's Medical Centre
Nottingham NG7 2HA
Tel: +44 (0)115 92 49924 ext 37180
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