Interoperability between Library Information Services and Learning Environments – Bridging the Gaps: A Joint White Paper on behalf of the IMS Global Learning Consortium and the Coalition for Networked Information by Neil McLean and CliffordLynch
There was an earlier Public Draft (June 28, 2003): http://www.imsglobal.org/DLims_white_paper_publicdraft_1.pdf ("Interoperability between Information and Learning Environments – Bridging the Gaps A Joint White Paper on behalf of the IMS Global Learning Consortium) and the Coalition for Networked Information"
DRAFT – Version of June 28, 2003 Neil McLean Clifford Lynch
JaneLee and RaymondYee are currently studying the paper. Here are some random notes so far from the paper and some questions we have.
Some Issue raised in the paper
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what exactly are repositories? Conflicting vision/definitions make it difficult to standardize interfaces. IMS-DR and OKI interfaces are just a start.
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service layer needed
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push vs push and pull
From 7.7 Portal Standards:
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Many developers working in the IMS space are very familiar with the capabilities of portal technologies, but there is limited knowledge within either the IMS or the library communities of standards in the portal space or the potential for integration with other architectures including web services, and information feeds (i.e. RSS). It is not clear how important it is to invest effort in this area, at present, however, particularly as a joint library/IMS undertaking.
But note 7.1.2:
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The IMS Learning Design Group has expressed use cases for learning management systems accessing search services e.g. rather than having a static reading list, clicking on the “reading list” would trigger a request to a search service that would return a current list of materials that meet a predefined search criteria. Again this would be a two-part activity - defining the abstract search service, and developing implementation bindings. There is a need to look seriously at Web Services bindings where appropriate. With regard to a Z39.50 binding, it is probably a profile of Z39.50.
Section 8:
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It will be vital that both the information and e-learning communities look to the possibility of applying service-oriented architectures such as Web Services, which are now the focus of attention in many other industries. All the familiar problems are being addressed in this service-oriented architecture environment, namely: security, identity management, authentication, authorisation, administration, privacy, confidentiality, transactions, registry solutions, web services orchestration and workflow solutions.
Question of what is known about user search patterns? So even if there aren't too many LOs per se, what work has been done in the area of user-interaction studies in learning objects (e.g, paper prototypes)
What do we at the IU want to get from the paper?
We want help in identifying our blindspots in this area. That is, what issues are identified in the whitepaper that really aren't on our radar?
