eLearning Development Phase One: Digital Library

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e-Learning Development Phase One Digital Library

• NA3, User Training and InductionUK National
  e-Science Centre

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Training requirements

• Best to take training to the audience -
  ubiquitous
• Persistency of courses - anytime
• Account for different background skills
• Rapid response to rising training demands

Experts and trainers under heavy demand. Core
training team already supporting events all over
Europe and need to train more people within the
current constraints.
I prefer to learn whenever I need to and
online!.
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e-Learning

• Enhances accessibility to courses - 24/7
  availability
• Provides alternative training approaches
• Facilitates prerequisites training/focus on
  advanced
• Provides collaborative environments for all
  involved

Self-paced, peer-to-peer learning
Knowledge exchange
Need to diversify training methods
Sharing and localising training resources
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Service oriented e-learning
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• e-Learning Framework - http//www.elframework.org
  
• e-Framework - http//www.e-framework.org/

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Digital library core services I
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Federated Search
Resolver
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• Resource discovery searching browsing
• Content sensitive linking (object resolver)

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First prototype
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First prototype
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First Prototype
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First prototype

• Current URL
• http//baillie.lib.ed.ac.uk8080/egeelibrary
• Towards http//egee.lib.ed.ac.uk or
• http//egeelibrary.nesc.ac.uk
• Prototype continued to be revamped to address
  usability and service quality issues
• Google-like front-end
• Fulltext indexing (e.g. search for myproxy-init
  in resources)

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Integration with NA3 partners

• Interoperability, interoperability,
  interoperability!
• The digital library is accessible via web
  services
• Current WSDL
• http//baillie.lib.ed.ac.uk9000/fedora/access/soa
  p?wsdl
• Based on open source repository - Fedora
• Standard protocol available to harvest metadata
  from the repository for collaboration purposes,
  i.e. with projects such as
• ICEAGE
• DILIGENT
• BELIEF

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Integration with NA3 partners
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Digital library core services II
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Authentication
Authorisation
Content Management
Federated Search
Metadata Management
Resolver
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• Resource discovery searching browsing
• Content sensitive linking (object resolver)
• Content and metadata management - wiki approach
• Authentication Authorisation

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Digital library core services II

• Content management system
• Wiki services for digital library
• Metadata wiki based on W3C XForms (rich user
  interface)
• Versioning and history
• Interoperability
• Multimedia content using W3C SMIL
• Exporting objects in e-learning and digital
  library standards
• Piloting JSR 168 Portlet Container, currently
  Gridsphere

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Second prototype
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Second prototype
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Second prototype
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Second prototype
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Other pilots - extended services
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Resource List
Annotation / Review
Authentication
Authorisation
Content Management
Federated Search
Metadata Management
Resolver
Personalisation
Packaging
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• Annotation and review services
• RSS notification and alerting services
• Personal resource list/collection management
• Interoperability with other digital library
  e-learning environments (export/import) via
  packaging services

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RSS pilots- web browser
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RSS pilots- Podcast
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Information

• Development details and testbed
• http//wiki.nesc.ac.uk/read/egee-elearning/
• Email
• boon.low_at_ed.ac.uk