Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services COLIS COLIS Demonstrator Project Progress Rep

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Collaborative Online Learning and Information
Services (COLIS)COLIS Demonstrator
ProjectProgress Report

• Neil McLean
• July 2002

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AUDIT
Creator
Infoseeker
Agent
Learner
NEGOTIATE TRADE
RESOLVE
Resource
Utilizers
DISCOVER
USE
ACCESS
MANAGE RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS
Presentation
(Query, Browse, Follow Path)
SEARCH
REQUEST
GATHER
Mediation
Procurement
Access Management
PUBLISH
ALERT
Provision
CONTROL ACCESS
STORE
DELIVER
MANAGE
EXPOSE
MAKE PAYMENT
Assets
Metadata
AUTHENTICATE
AUTHORISE
Repositories
Directories
Registries
Repositories
People
Vocabulary
Metadata
Organisations
Traders
Competency
STORE
EXPOSE
MANAGE
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DEMONSTRATOR GOALS

• Linking of the learning management system to
  librarye-services.
• Incorporation of specified levels of digital
  rights management.
• Seamless movement between applications using a
  single sign-on, incorporating directory services.
• Implementation of specified components of the IMS
  Digital Repositories Working Group framework,
  including OAI harvesting and the SRW and Z39.50
  query search protocols.
• Interoperability of key components in the life
  cycle management of learning objects.

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SCOPING CHALLENGES

• Development of appropriate use scenarios.
• Semantics and technical implications of the term
  integration.
• Finding a common language for defining levels of
  interoperability between applications.
• Degree of adherence to standards framework.
• Limitations of each application.
• Interpretation of single/same sign-on.
• Understanding learning object management
• Incorporation of digital rights management

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DEMONSTRATOR SERVICE AGREEMENT PRINCIPLES

• Interoperability levels to be limited to
  achievable goals.
• Outcomes to be developed in three month period.
• Parties retain intellectual property rights to
  respective original inputs.
• Any specifications developed within the project
  to be open source.

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ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES

• A series of defined but limited levels of
  interoperability between applications.
• Greater understanding of the role and function of
  learning content management systems.
• A COLIS ODRL metadata profile.
• Example of actual run-time processing of ODRL for
  learning object delivery by a learning content
  management system
• An introduction to the use of OAI and SRW as
  protocols for searching across disparate
  repositories.
• Some appreciation of the role of a unified portal
  for user sign on and access management.

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RESEARCH CHALLENGES

• The development of interoperable directory
  services for people services and resources.
• The exploration of operational relationships
  between- distributed learning management
  systems, - learning content management systems
  and - content management systems.
• The development of shared metadata application
  profiles.
• The delivery of learning objects in
  learning/teaching environments.
• The dynamics of activity-centred use of learning
  objects.
• The pedagogic implications of learning object
  orientated systems.