1. Learning Object Repository Registry (LORRy) Dr David Massart, EUN

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3. Disclaimer The work described in this presentation is partially supported by the European Community eContentplus programme - project ASPECT: Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content (Grant agreement number ECP-2007- EDU-417008). The author is solely responsible for the content of this presentation. It does not represent the opinion of the European Community and the European Community is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained therein.

4. Outline A registry! What for? Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) FRBR & LOM Describing LOs at Different FRBR Levels Metadata description in practice Handling LOM (instead of LOs) Discussion: ILOX versus OAI-ORE

5. To federate learning object repositories …

6. … You need to know where they are …

7. … And what protocols they support

8. Current Limitations There is no way for a federation such as the LRE to automatically discover new repositories The locations of the LRE repositories have to be entered manually The knowledge of the protocols supported by repositories for exposing resources is implicit

9. LOR Registry

10. IMS LODE Registry Data Model Based on the ISO 2146 model for registry description Describes: – Content collections – Metadata collections – Protocols – Targets – Access policy

12. Five Basic Types 1.CharacterString (ex: “apple”) 2.Identifier – Catalog (ex: “uri”) – Entry (ex: “http://entity.123.345/567”) 3.LangString – Language (ex: “en”) – String (ex: “apple”) 4.VocabTerm – VocabularyID (ex: “fruit list”) – Value (ex: “apple”)

13. Five Basic Types (cont.) 5.Property Strength: “some”, “most”, and “all”

14. Protocols

15. SQI

16. OAI-PMH

17. Target

18. Resources ASPECT Deliverable D2.2: Design of Data Model and Architecture for a Registry of Learning Object Repositories and Application Profiles http://aspect- project.org/sites/default/files/docs/ASPECT_D2p2. pdfhttp://aspect- project.org/sites/default/files/docs/ASPECT_D2p2. pdf Bindings: – Collection: http://fire.eun.org/xsd/registry/imsloreg_v1p0.xsd http://fire.eun.org/xsd/registry/imsloreg_v1p0.xsd – OAI-PMH: http://fire.eun.org/xsd/registry/imslooaipmh_v1p0.xsd http://fire.eun.org/xsd/registry/imslooaipmh_v1p0.xsd – SQI: http://fire.eun.org/xsd/registry/imslosqi_v1p0.xsdhttp://fire.eun.org/xsd/registry/imslosqi_v1p0.xsd