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hello Amber, We are developing interoperable search tool (z39.50 and SRW) on our JISC MDC project and would like to be able to search a LOM repository. Could we see if this would be possible. Many regards, Howard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amber Thomas" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 12:28 PM Subject: Re: Repository exposure Hi Fred, I run the Ferl website http://ferl.becta.org.uk which is a website for FE college staff using technology. The system uses UK LOM metadata. In the learning and teaching resource bank we've got over 2,500 teaching resources catalogued, including 650 hosted downloadable teaching resources and 280 hosted downloadable quizzes. We are going to be making our metadata available in XML format for download with individual resources or for bulk data sharing. I agree there's a lot of talk, papers and scoping, and not much doing! Maybe we could talk off list and collaborate? Amber -----Original Message----- From: Fred Riley [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 08 September 2004 13:25 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Repository exposure 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 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/staff/support-staff/fred_riley.html This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************