[sword-app-tech] SPI: Call for participation

[Neil S. <nei...@k-...>]

Hi All,

I am forwarding a call for participation in the 'Simple Publishing Interface' work which is taking place with the CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technologies.  I am a member of that project team along with colleagues from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, European Schoolnet, and Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

We are keen to avoid re-inventing wheels and to ensure maximum interoperability with existing protocols.  At Knowledge Integration we have been tracking the SWORD project for some time and my colleague Ian Ibbotson, an active CRIG participant, has implemented SWORD interfaces between a number of desktop tools and repositories.

Ian has been invited to attend tomorrow's SWORD 2 meeting to ensure close liaison between the two initiatives.  Members of the SWORD development community are welcome to participate in the SPI work by feeding their views and requirements through Ian or myself or by participating directly in the yahoo group mentioned below.

I look forward to your input!

Regards,



Neil Smith
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Neil Smith (neil.smith[at]k-int.com)
Knowledge Integration Ltd
35 Paradise Street, Sheffield S3 8PZ
+44 870 803 4661       www.k-int.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stefaan Ternier
Sent: 27 June 2008 07:46
To: 
Subject: SPI: Call for participation

--Apologies for cross-postings.--

The CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technologies has initiated work on
standardising a Simple Publishing Interface for Learning Object
Repositories.

The objective is to develop a practical approach towards
interoperability between repositories for learning and applications
that consume or produce educational materials. Examples of
repositories for learning are educational brokers, knowledge pools,
institutional repositories, streaming video servers, etc. Applications
that consume these educational materials are for instance query and
indexation tools, authoring tools, presentation programs, content
packagers, etc. The work will concentrate on the development of the
simple publishing interface (SPI), an interface for pushing
educational materials to a repository.

With this invitation, we hope to attract more stakeholders in this
domain and enable interoperability between various heterogeneous
applications. In a first phase, we want to start sharing documents and
specifications that already deal with publishing metadata and
resources. We have already initiated an archive on
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/publishinterop/ where we are
currently collecting both existing work as well as requirements. Feel
free to join this group and to participate in this work. The first
iteration of collecting this information is due August 1st. After this
date, a first draft specification will be compiled and implemented.

We are very much looking forward to your collaboration. Having a
common specification for publishing metadata and digital resources can
make a real difference in providing "share and reuse" for learning
objects.

Erik Duval, David Massart, Bernd Simon, Neil Smith, Stefaan Ternier,
Michael Totschnig & Frans van Assche
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