Buzz - Adl

• Seb Schmoller Replies

  Stepping down from his pivotal role as CEO at ALT, Seb Schmoller kindly answers a few questions from Ariadne on his perspective on online learning.

• The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education: A JISC CETIS Event

  Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies and communities, organised by JISC CETIS.

• Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008

  Sarah Currier gives an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata.

• ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers

  Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004.

• RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning Resource Discovery Based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH

  Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery.

• Metadiversity

  Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata.