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I had committed 100% to the “rich, deep metadata is beautiful” mantra, drinking the IMS/IEEE LOM Kool-Aid™. I’ve built Large Applications that have been designed entirely around handling the complexity of this rich/deep metadata, and trying to abs

The Learning Network for Learning Design (LN4LD) is intended as platform to learn and exchange information about the IMS Learning Design specification and its application. Here you will find units of learning and discussion forums dealing with various asp

The UNFOLD project is supporting the adoption of open eLearning standards for multiple learners and flexible pedagogies

Over the past few weeks I have met and talked with many people about e-Portfolio and the main points I have learned are

I'd forgotten about this; in most ways better than using flickr images :o) S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well.

In his presentation, noted strategic futurist Wayne Hodgins will articulate a grand vision of a future of learning and the three grand challenges which are as audacious as they are achievable. A vision where literally every person on the planet experience

Africa is a key theme of this year's G8 summit. This is an overview of some of the economic challenges facing the continent.

D’Arcy gets to the meat as regards multi-user weblogging and I can’t hold back (even though I have a million other things to do)…

The HTML+SMIL profile integrates a subset of the SMIL Boston specification with HTML. It includes the SMIL Boston modules supporting animation, content control, linking, media objects, timing an synchronization, and transition effects. The SMIL Boston fea

The BBC is giving web developers and designers outside of the organisation access to its content so that they can "create cool new things".

It takes the hassle out of staying up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in.

nicely comprehensive but terse info on all the services offered by Google, with links

The following materials provide high-level, introductory discussion about the DOI; detailed coverage of policy, operations and technology; and a description of the components of the DOI System and its underlying technology.

Portfolio learning is a self-directed, student-centered process, through which you have the opportunity to talk about yourself, what you are doing in your particular program(s) at NSCC and where you want to go in life

Digital portfolios are tools of communities looking for critical differences. Its members use expressive tools to present themselves and invite critique, comment and guidance from their community. Digital portfolios hold the “between” of “before”

A PURL is a Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. Functionally, a PURL is a URL. However, instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet resource, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution service. The PURL resolution service associates the

WAG the Dog (or the WAGger, for short) was developed to help you access library resources from external websites, such as Google Scholar. The WAGger will rewrite appropriate hyperlinks to route through the library proxy server [learn more], find books in

A Web user visits a site such as Yahoo! Search or Google and enters a search phrase that matches the title of a library-owned item. The returned search results include a link to the Open WorldCat "Find in a Library" interface, where they can enter geograp

Dublin Core celebrates its tenth anniversary this month. OCLC Research congratulates the Initiative on its decade of successful hard work, and wishes it the best to come.

Loosely coupled systems allow pieces to be written with less interaction between developers. Reading things like Wikipedia's entry on Loosely Coupled might make you think that this is something new, but I remember developers at OCLC talking about it 20 y

Web Design patterns

People are capturing and storing an ever-increasing amount of digital information about or for themselves..This article provides a commentary on current research and emerging services in this area and discusses potential implications for individuals, libr

Zniff uses human information from normal internet users, such as yourself, to find and rank web pages. The results you see on Zniff are from a collection of about 2 million bookmarks gathered by the users of the Spurl.net bookmarking service.