Date: Friday 18th June 2004; Venue: Ty'n Rhos Country House, Seion, nr. Caernarfon, North Wales.

Online registration form. The meeting is free, all are welcome, and lunch is provided.

Agenda

• Vashti Zarach, SIG Coordinator, will give an introduction and update.
• Michael Aherne of Reid Kerr College (a Scottish FE college) will be talking about developing a standard for course identifiers.
• Jon Rowett of Brockenhurst College (an FE college from the New Forest in England) will be giving an update on Emily, the MLE at Brockenhurst. Jon gave a presentation on Emily at an earlier SIG meeting, which Brockenhurst hosted.
• Tom Franklin will be giving a talk on outcomes of the JISC SWANI Interoperability Pilots Programme, which investigated systems integration in FE colleges in Scotland and Wales.
• We also have reports from the JISC SHELL and NIIMLE Projects, which were funded by Phase 1 of the MLEs for Lifelong Learning Programme to build cross-institutional MLEs. NIIMLE is based in Northern Ireland, and SHELL in South-West England:
• Greg McClure and Davey O’Hare from the NIIMLE Project (Northern Ireland Integrated Managed Learning Environment) will be reporting on the NIIMLE Project. Area covered will include the background to the project, technical architecture (including Enterprise Web Services), experiences using Enterprise Web Services, uPortal, and general experiences and issues.
• Terry Rourke and Dave Croot from the SHELL Project will also be presenting. Terry will talk about the use of ioNodes for data transport, and Dave will be talking about transferring learner records between PDP systems.

Travel and accommodation

If you wish to stay on and visit North Wales at the weekend, please feel welcome to contact me and ask about local attractions and accommodation. See also: North Wales Tourism website.