ASPECT-IMS webinar on 21 September: IMS LODE and Resource Discovery
Learn about the IMS Learning Object Discovery and Exchange (LODE) specification and how it is being used in digital resource repositories. The webinar, organised in collaboration with IMS Global Learning Consortium and open to all those interested will take place on 21 September 2010 at 5PM CEST.
The IMS Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE) specification aims to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects stored across more than one collection. LODE can be seen as a glue specification that profiles existing general-purpose protocols in order to take into account requirements specific to the educational domain, rather than creating new protocols. It proposes three main data models:
- A LODE Context Set for the Contextual Query Language (CQL): a data model for the attributes of learning objects, which can be used for search by expressing educationally meaningful queries;
- A data model, named Information for Learning Object eXchange (ILOX), that organizes sets of metadata on learning objects to be used in data exchange; and
- A data model, named Learning Object Repository Registry Data Model, for learning object collections, to be used in discovering and configuring access to those collections.
The webinar will introduce the LODE specification and illustrate some of the possiblilities it offers with examples from the Learning Resource Exchange and the ASPECT project.
Presenters: Dr. David Massart and Dr. Elena Shulman
- Dr. David Massart is Senior Manager at the European Schoolnet where he leads research and development activities around the Learning Resource Exchange (LRE). David is also the ASPECT project manager. He is active in the IMS Global Learning Consortium as a member of the Technical Advisory Board Steering Committee and a co-chair of the Learning Object Discovery and Exchange (LODE) working group. Since 2007, he organizes an International workshop on Search & Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M).
- Dr. Elena Shulman is the Semantic Interoperability Expert at the European Schoolnet where she manages the Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) and the LRE's Vocabulary Bank for Education (VBE). She is a contributing member of the Learning Object Discovery and Exchange (LODE) working group and co-organizer of SE@M 2010.
