The interoperability of learning object repositories and services: Standards, implementations and lessons learned

Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings, WWW2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 751-759

  Hatala, Marek ^a   Richards, Griff ^a   Eap, Timmy ^a   Willms, Jordan ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interoperability; Learning object repositories

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTEROPERABILITY; METADATA; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STANDARDIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

ASYNCHRONOUS MESSAGING; EDUSOURCE COMMUNICATIONS LAYER (ECL); HETEROGENEOUS REPOSITORIES; LEARNING OBJECT REPOSITORIES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 19944399437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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