1. A National Network of Interoperable Repositories Mike Mattson The University of Calgary A National Network of Interoperable Repositories Mike Mattson The University of Calgary eduSourceCanada

2. Pan-Canadian research project Create a testbed of linked and interoperable learning object repositories across Canada Provide a forum for the ongoing development of the associated tools, systems, protocols and practices that will support such an infrastructure What is eduSource?

3. Start Date: July 1, 2002 Completion Date: March 31,2004 Total Budget: $8.5 million CANARIE Contribution: $4.25 million Project

4. Partners NewMIC Netera Calgary Athabasca Univ. Univ. of Waterloo Technologies Cogigraph Tele Education NB

5. Academic Partners Ecole Polytechnique Netera Athabasca Univ. Univ. of Waterloo Technologies Cogigraph TENB Univ. of British Columbia BCIT C2T2 Simon Fraser Univ. Univ. of Alberta NAIT Univ. of Calgary Univ. of Lethbridge Seneca College Sheridan College Brock Univ. Univ. de Montréal Univ. de Laval Univ. de Moncton ETI APCCC NBDEN NewMIC

6. Industry Partners Antarcti.ca Netera Athabasca Univ. Univ. of Waterloo TENB Teles Training Alberta Learning Rights Market Callisto TeleSat Télé- université NRC Bell Technomedia e-com CANARIE Technologies Cogigraph NewMIC

7. Case for Colaboration  Confirm Canada as an international leader in online learning  Create a critical mass of national expertise  Shared research avoids redundancy and the repetition of expensive mistakes  Leverage existing and planned investments

8. Enable Don’t Require Implement International Standards and Specifications Integrate Vision, Technology, Solutions and Sustainability Provide Open Source Tools to the Community Vision

9. Evolving Specifications Open Source Issues Many Right Points of View 50% Funding Model Vision to Reality

10.  Repository Content Development Facilitation  Digital Rights Management  Testing and Evaluation  Metadata Development  Software Development  Hardware Integration  Business and Management Models  Community Building  Project Management, Co-ordination & Communications Work Packages

11. Professional Indexers Controlled Vocabularies Learning Outcomes Educators Simple Needs CanCore Application Profile Megadata

12. LIES DAMN LIES SPECIFICATIONS Standards

13. Software Development

14. eduSource Communication Language (ECL) Connector based on IMS DRI Specification SOAP messaging OAI Z39.50

15. eduSource Communication Language (ECL) Gateway for Translations Design and Build Once Each Repository only has to create a single plug-in for ECL, not one for every protocol Open Source

16. Search?

17. Why Not Use a Search Engine?

18. More authoritative metadata to provide richer indexing of content Add option of hosting content as well as metadata (ensure availability) Ability to add value to the resources (not just a search engine) Why Use A Repository?

19. ECL diagram

20. xQuery OAI Peer-2-Peer RSS eduSearch

21. xQuery few implementations in Open Source databases relational database support Native XML VS. Relational Database Conundrum

22. xQuery Develop xQuery templates of supported searches eduSource Repositories will publish supported searches to the registry Creation of search channels by interest group Database Solutions

23. Available services will be published for users to access Huge administrative issues to be addressed Finite group of repositories will be tested in this project Victims of success EduSource Registry

24. Repository-in-a-box National/International Standards and Practices Search Engines Learning Design Best Practices Web Services Open Systems Specifications Media Database Indexing Tools Metadata Services User Interfaces 3rd Party Add-ons Rights Mgmt.

25. eduSource Challenges Scope Distance Conflict Resolution Funding Model Managing Expectations

26. Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects Learning Object Repository Place to find resources Means to share resources Tool for Communities of Learners What is CAREO?

27. “Main Menu” - after login

28. Search Results

29. Advanced Search

30. Browse Objects

31. Subscribed Objects - bookmarks on server

32. View Object

33. View Object Metadata Summary

34. View Object History

35. View Metadata Source XML

36. My Account

37. Add Object - Metadata Entry

38. My Objects: Objects I’ve Added

39. Discuss/Review Objects

40. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Repository

41. Metadata standards used to share information about resources Can integrate this information in a growing number of applications “Subscribe” to lists of Learning Objects from websites or online courses Learning Object Syndication

42. In Blackboard

43. In a website

44. On the desktop

45. In a Portal

46. Institutional or Departmental “themes” Reusing the Repository

47. “Alexandria” Theme

48. “CAREO” Theme

49. “SciQ” Theme

50. More portable - installable at other institutions Aggregation of objects - chapters/books... Integration with LMS (Blackboard plugin...) International network - EduSource Plans for CAREO

51. Addresses CAREO http://careo.ucalgary.ca Development Weblog http://commons.ucalgary.ca/weblogs/dnor man SciQ: Science Revealed (K-12 Repository) http://www.SciQ.ca EduSource http://edusource.ca

52. Mike Mattson: mmattson@ucalgary.ca Michael Magee magee@ucalgary.ca D’Arcy Norman: dlnorman@ucalgary.ca Contact Information