LOMXML

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LOM-XML

• Erik Duval
• Dept. Computerwetenschappen
• K.U.Leuven
• http//www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/erikd

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Slides on the web

• URL posted to LOM-XML group
• http//www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/erikd/LOM/slides.ppt

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creativecommons.org

• Attribution. The licensor permits others to copy,
  distribute, display, and perform the work. In
  return, licensees must give the original author
  credit.
• Share Alike. The licensor permits others to
  distribute derivative works under a license
  identical to the one that governs the licensor's
  work.

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LOM concept map
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LOM UML
http//rubens.cs.kuleuven.ac.be8989/ariadne/LOM/
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ORM

• PDF

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Participants

• who ltsc-lom-xml
• 49 subscribers
• ltsc2001_at_hotmail.com
• ltsc2001_at_hotmail.com
• Erik.Duval_at_cs.kuleuven.ac.be
• wayne.hodgins_at_autodesk.com
• kris.cardinaels_at_cs.kuleuven.ac.be
• ssarapat_at_enc.org
• a.steinacker_at_i-views.de
• mini_at_nada.kth.se
• rehak_at_cmu.edu
• Claude.Ostyn_at_Click2learn.com
• a9707986_at_unet.univie.ac.at
• untulis_at_exch.hpl.hp.com
• Thomas.Herrmann_at_teleteach.de
• Trent_at_cett.msstate.edu
• debbie_at_cett.msstate.edu
• mura_at_smete.org

• erlend.overby_at_conduct.no
• gorbunova_at_openet.ru
• johannes.lischka_at_univie.ac.at
• magdam_at_us.ibm.com
• mnakamura_at_click2learn.co.jp
• bartrums_at_convergentdev.com
• thomas.hartl_at_elearnconsult.at
• bnielsen_at_netg.com
• mike.fore_at_atsc.army.mil
• adam.cooper_at_fdlearning.com
• diplomarbeit_at_ck76.de
• robinson_at_zeroneinc.com
• Colin.Tattersall_at_ou.nl
• lasnir_at_utu.fi
• philb_at_icbl.hw.ac.uk
• rapf_at_fgi.at
• cbernhof_at_edu.uni-klu.ac.at
• dooley_at_watson.ibm.com
• sgriffin_at_imsglobal.org

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Timing

• 24 May 2002 call for volunteers
• 3 June 2002 start of work
• 19 June 2002 Kirkland, WA, USA
• 16 Sept. 2002 Lawrence, KA, USA
• 10 Dec. 2002 Kopenhagen, DK
• conference calls
• Thanks to Click2Learn for Placeware support!

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Since last meeting

• We want to get started with the ballot process
  ASAP ("but no sooner"), and that we also want to
  have a starting document that is as good as
  possible ("but no better"). We don't want to
  delay ballot forever, so as to start with a
  perfect document, nor do we want to rush into
  ballot with an immature document.

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Since last meeting

• Document and XSD
• http//www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/erikd/LOM/
• Finalized document on January, 31st
• Added substantial redundancy
• No known problems with XSD
• Or maybe ? ?
• Submitted to IEEE on February, 17th
• Requested pre-ballot review

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http//www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/erikd/LOM/index.html
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Thanks to ? apologies if I forgot you ?

• Sam Dooley, Mike Fore, Scott Lewis (and to ADL
  for funding), Boyd Nielsen, Lassi Nirhamo, Claude
  Ostyn, Dan Rehak, Steve Sarapata, Schawn Thropp
• Christian Klaue
• Sam Dooley no changes are needed for the LOM
  schema, but the references in the LOM information
  model should really be updated LOM1.x?

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Invitation to ballot
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Invitation to ballot

• Remember, anyone may ballot IEEE Standards.
  However, if you are not a member of the IEEE
  Standards Association (IEEE-SA), you may
  participate by either becoming a member or with
  the payment of a per-ballot fee.
• If you are interested in participating in this
  electronic ballot, you must respond by
  2003-03-29, 1159 PM Eastern Time by filling out
  the web-based form at http//standards.ieee.org/cg
  i-bin/bsignup/0000474

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Invitation to ballot

• The IEEE requires that a minimum of 75 of the
  balloting group return their ballots for the
  ballot to be valid. As such, by agreeing to
  participate in this ballot you have an obligation
  to respond. Failure to return a completed
  ballot may disqualify you from participating in
  future ballots.

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Dans word of warning

• FYI -- The IEEE Standards Association mail with
  the ballot invitation for 1484.12.3 was flagged
  by spamassin as spam. Depending on how your mail
  is filtered, you may not get it.

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Confirmation
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So?

• Who joined?
• Who will join?

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IEEE editor feedback - definitions

• Don Messina
• IEEE Standards Project Editor
• Regarding Definitions
• If possible IEEE 100 should be used as the source
  for all your definitions however, if that is not
  possible or applicable to your draft please
  remember that acronyms shall not be defined in
  the definition clause. Each definition shall be a
  brief, self-contained description of the term in
  question. The term shall not be used in its own
  definition.
• The two definitions for LOM and the two for XML
  should both be rewritten according to the above
  IEEE style requirements for definitions.

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IEEE editor feedback - definitions

• LOM definition in doc
• learning object metadata (LOM) data element A
  data element for which the name, explanation,
  size, ordering, value space, and data type are
  defined in this Standard.
• learning object metadata (LOM) data model A data
  model defined in IEEE 1414.12.12000.
• XML definitions in current doc
• XML binding A set of requirements and or
  constraints for building an XML representation of
  a particular data model.
• XML binding instance A particular XML
  representation of the data model that adheres to
  the requirements and/or constraints of the XML
  binding of the data model.

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IEEE editor feedback - figures

• I have some concern about the layout of the
  figures of code. Since some figures carry over to
  multiple pages we might have to consider
  alternative ways of displaying them. This is an
  editorial and publishing issue not technical
  however, if you could supply figures that that
  did not exceed one page that would be helpful.
  Figures that need to broken could be renamed, for
  example, as Figure 1a and Figure 1b. The Working
  Group knows best where the code should be broken.
  Again, if these figures could be resized to fit
  on a single page it would expedite the formatting
  process.
• At the time of RevCom submittal please submit all
  graphics as separate files in either Tiff, JPEG,
  or EPS format.

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And also

• http//rubens.cs.kuleuven.ac.be8989/ariadne/
• 3259 LOM instances
• 5.1 MB
• XML generated off the ARIADNE Knowledge Pool
  System
• Other takers?

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The End...
Questions?

• Thanks!