Learning Content Registries and Repositories Summit - April 13-14, 2010

A Learning Content Registries and Repositories Summit, organized by the US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) and other partners, will be held in Alexandria, VA on April 13-14, 2010. 

About ADL:

In late 2003, the U.S. Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) began initial work on learning content registries, yielding both the CORDRA model and the ADL-Registry (ADL-R).  Numerous other organizations worldwide have undertaken similar modeling and registry work. The demand for discovery of, and access to, learning content and related learning materials continues. While progress on business drivers, policy issues, modeling, specifications, crossing organizational and community boundaries, and eliminating technical impediments have been made, problems in all areas still remain.

The purpose of the Summit is to bring together experienced leaders across the broad community to review past work and chart future activities. The Summit will coalesce thinking and understanding of current business drivers and requirements;  the state of practice in registries and repositories for learning content; business, policy, and technical issues; and seek to build consensus on next steps and directions for the content repository/registry community. 

Topics

• State of the practice in learning content repositories, including open source and commercial offerings, e.g., DSpace, e-Prints, Hive, IntraLibrary, Jorum, ORE and more
• State of the practice in learning content registries, ADL-Registry, Aspect, CORDRA, Globe, Global Registries Initiative
• Systemic initiatives in other domains, e.g., NSF DataNet, NSF NSDL, ANDS, Bamboo
• Registry Models, e.g., NISO 2146
• Standards and Specifications, e.g., IMS LODE, Metadata (LOM, DC, MLO), Repository Harvest and Publishing (OAI-PMH. OAI-ORE, APP, Sword), Query and Search (CQL, SRW/SRU, SPI, SQI), Vocabulary (XVD, VDEX, SKOS, ZTHES, CEF), Packaging (CP, CC,)
• Technical Issues, e.g., harvest/publish, search/discovery, multi-lingual support, content formats, metadata, identifiers, services, tracking/analytics, recommender systems, LMS/VLE/VW/EI integration
• Use and adoption of registries and repositories, e.g., uptake, impediments, business requirements
• Crosscutting themes:
  • Registry and Repository Analytics and Usage/Tracking Models
  • Rights Management
  • Identity and Access Control
  • Policy Issues

Who Should Attend

• Government policy makers and program managers
• Registry and repository project teams
• e-Learning content producers and consumers
• Standards and specifications experts

Format

• Invited panel discussions along with collaborative working/breakout sessions
  
• There are no planned formal project or technical presentations
  
• Projects and initiatives are welcome to prepare posters describing their work
• Participants will be asked to prepare a 1-2 page white paper outlining their views on one or more of the summit topics

For more information or to express interest in attending, contact Dan Rehak at ADL.