Category Archives: tech/tools/standards

Perusing the newly-released LOM/CanCore-based Open-Source Software Components was a humbling experience for me. The page promised that the code being offered included “interfaces, APIs (Application Program Interfaces), or schemas for working with LOM (Learning Object Metadata) or LOR (Learning Object … Continue reading →

I would be remiss if I didn’t give a shout-out to Alan Levine’s recent posting Repository of (Learning Object) Dreams, in which he describes the process by which Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) has grown out its collection. The tactics reviewed … Continue reading →

I’ll have to file this one away for my presentation at Access 2003 which is… [AWK!!] next week… The issue People who publish and maintain Weblogs have applied for ISSNs. Some registrars have immediately registered the Weblogs; others have categorically … Continue reading →

D’Arcy is all over this news on Pachyderm, but (I hope) these developments will have an impact on UBC as well, so I’ll do the echo thing here… Pachyderm is a piece of software developed by the San Francisco Museum … Continue reading →

…and who am I to argue. Cogdogblog is on the warpath about… well, why don’t I just quote from the posting: Spam is a reality, some 40% of email traffic. But there is absolutely no reason for the email scanning … Continue reading →

I’m feeling guilty about how hard all the other bloggers here are working, so I thought I would try to post on this presentation on MERLOT’s new federated search technology… even though Alan is sitting next to me, probably doing … Continue reading →

File this for future reference: Adding to the growing pile of IMS QTI compliant software is a new server side plug-in: QTI Ready. Following the emerging trend of supplying applications that are meant to do only one thing, and do … Continue reading →