1. Learning Technology Standards Observatory Luis Anido-Rifón Grupo de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos (GIST) University of Vigo

2. 2 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Timeline 3. LTSO Overview 4. New functionalities 5. LTSO endorsement 6. LTSO Maintenance

3. 3 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Timeline 3. LTSO Overview 4. New functionalities 5. LTSO endorsement 6. LTSO Maintenance

4. 4 Introduction  The output of this work will be A dynamic Observatory for Learning Technology Standards A set of administration tools to manage the entire web site.  A multilingual-capable observatory will be provided as a result of this work.  Further population will be based on administration tools with restricted permissions over the observatory data.

5. 5 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Timeline 3. LTSO Overview 4. New functionalities 5. LTSO endorsement 6. LTSO Maintenance

6. 6  Key dates (year 2003): 1. March/april (Q1 meeting). First prototypes. 2. July (Q2 meeting). Fully functional version for admin tools and 50% of client functionality. 3. October (Q3 meeting). Functionality completed. Some contents already introduced. 4. January 2004. Functionality and contents completed. Period for comments finished. Timeline

7. 7 1. After the completion of the development of the LTSO, the Observatory shall be offered for commenting to the outside world (CEN/ISSS/WS-LT and its liaisons) to receive comments on both the LTSO functionality and the contents themselves. Decissions from Vienna

8. 8 2. Two new functionalities will be added to the LTSO (supported by an extension of the current contract): (a) the development of an XML binding for the LTSO structure and contents and (b) the development of a pdf version of the LTSO for downloading. Decissions from Vienna

9. 9 3. The structure for the user's guide (for the general administrator) has been accepted.user's guide 4. LTSO sections: "Metadata", "Content Aggregation" and "Learner Information" has been reviewed and accepted. The PT will introduce the remaining sections before the commenting period (item 1 above). Decissions from Vienna

10. 10 5. The PT proposed to use specification "Standards Metadata Element Set, v3.0" as the basis to describe standards in the LTSO. This conceptual model will be bound to XML to support standards descriptions exchange with external sites. This proposal has been accepted. 6. RSS will be used for both news and events Decissions from Vienna

11. 11 7. The PT will deliver a translation document that will be filled by volunteers in order to produce the remaining language version (English version already available). Decissions from Vienna

12. 12 LTSO Overview 1. Introduction 2. Timeline 3. LTSO Overview 4. New functionalities 5. LTSO endorsement 6. LTSO Maintenance

13. 13 LTSO Overview: home page

14. 14 LTSO Overview: contents example

15. 15 LTSO Overview: contents example

16. 16 LTSO Overview: contents example

17. 17 LTSO Overview: contents example

18. 18 LTSO Overview: contents example

19. 19 LTSO Overview: contents example Contents currently covered by the LTSO: 13 institutions and bodies 17 standardisation areas More than 50 standards/specifications More than 7,000 visits since June 2003

20. 20 LTSO Overview: Events

21. 21 LTSO Overview: News

22. 22 LTSO Overview: Notification system

23. 23 LTSO Overview: RSS interface

24. 24 LTSO Overview: Newsletter

25. 25 LTSO Overview: Expert’s info

26. 26 LTSO Overview LTSO experts registered so far:  Luis Anido-Rifón.  Yolaine Bourda.  Lorna Campbell.  Frank Farance.  Daniel Gondouin.

27. 27 LTSO Overview LTSO experts registered so far:  Andy Heath.  Charalampos Karagiannidis.  Kinshuk.  Anastasios Koutoumanos.  Rolf Lindner.

28. 28 LTSO Overview LTSO experts registered so far:  Rory McGreal.  Claude Ostyn.  Daniel Rehak.  Robby Robson.  Colin Smythe.  Thomas Watson.

29. 29 LTSO Overview: Forum

30. 30 LTSO Overview: Standards finder The standard used for this is :Standards Metadata Element Set, v3.0

31. 31 LTSO Overview: Authoring Tools

32. 32 LTSO Overview: Authoring tools

33. 33 LTSO Overview: Authoring tools

34. 34 LTSO Overview: Administrators management

35. 35 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Timeline 3. LTSO Overview 4. New functionalities 5. LTSO endorsement 6. LTSO Maintenance

36. 36 LTSO PDF book Development of a “ready-to-print” version of the LTSO contents: This work item provides a pdf Book containing the whole contents of the LTSO in a “ready-to-print” (pdf) format. This would let those interested in learning technology standardization access a every-day updated State-of-the-Art. Current contents generate a 417 pages book

37. 37 LTSO PDF Book

38. 38 LTSO PDF Book

39. 39 LTSO PDF Book

40. 40 LTSO PDF Book

41. 41 LTSO PDF Book

42. 42 LTSO PDF Book

43. 43 LTSO IMS Package  The LTSO generates a IMS-like package daily. It contains the whole contents in the LTSO following the IMS Content Packaging Specification v 1.1.3.  This allows external systems to import contents from the LTSO

44. 44 LTSO IMS Package  The manifest contains information to recover the current LTSO content structure.  Actual contents are packaged both in HTML and XML.  XML contents are described in a XSD that can be downloaded from the LTSO itself.

45. 45 LTSO IMS Package

46. 46 LTSO IMS Package

47. 47 LTSO IMS Package

48. 48 LTSO IMS Package

49. 49 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Timeline 3. LTSO Overview 4. New functionalities 5. LTSO endorsement 6. LTSO Maintenance

50. 50 LTSO endorsement Commenting period initiated by Nikolaus Kovacs in November 4 th, 2003. Deadline: December 15 th, 2003. Some comments received by Robby Robson, Luc van den Berghe, Rolf Lindner, Nikolaus Kovacs, Mike Collet and Frans van Assche. All these comments were taken into account by the PT and implemented by the end of 2003.

51. 51 LTSO endorsement Can we accept the current LTSO version as the final deliverable by this PT?

52. 52 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Timeline 3. LTSO Overview 4. New functionalities 5. LTSO endorsement 6. LTSO Maintenance

53. 53 LTSO Maintenance 1. Translation process: A call for volunteers was launched in November 26 th. No answers received New call for volunteers? Machine translation?

54. 54 LTSO Maintenance CEDEFOP and the European SchoolNet will sponsor the LTSO maintenance during one year more. Contract to be signed in the near future. The LTSO is alive!!

55. 55  Please send your comments to lanido@det.uvigo.es http://www.gist.uvigo.es/~lanido/LTSO Thanks VIGO