Category Archives: standards

inBloom to implement Learning Registry and LRMI

By Lorna | February 8, 2013

There have been a number of reports in the tech press this week about inBloom a new technology integration initiative for the US schools’ sector launched by the Shared Learning Collective. inBloom is “a nonprofit provider of technology services aimed at connecting data, applications and people that work together to create better opportunities for [...]

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Back to the Future - revisiting the CETIS codebashes

By Lorna | December 5, 2012

As a result of a request from the Cabinet Office to contribute to a paper on the use of hackdays during the procurement process, CETIS have been revisiting the “Codebash” events that we ran between 2002 and 2007. The codebashes were a series of developer events that focused on testing the practical interoperability of implementations [...]

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A TAACCCTful mandate? OER, SCORM and the $2bn grant

By Lorna | January 25, 2011

Last week’s announcement that the US Department of Labour is planning to allocate $2 billion in grant funds to the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grants programme over the next four years, has already generated a huge response online. $2 billion is a lot of money #inthiscurrentclimate, or indeed in any [...]

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Then and Now

By Lorna | April 16, 2010

A position paper for the ADL Repositories and Registries Summit by Lorna M. Campbell, Phil Barker and R. John Robertson
Between 2002 and 2010 the UK Joint information Systems Committee (JISC)1 funded a wide range of development programmes with the aim of improving access within the UK Further and Higher Education (F/HE) sector to content [...]

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When is Linked Data not Linked Data? - A summary of the debate

By Lorna | March 16, 2010

One of the activities identified during last December’s Semantic Technology Working Group meeting to be taken forward by CETIS was the production of a briefing paper that disambiguated some of the terminology for those that are less familiar with this domain. The following terms in particular were highlighted:

Semantic Web
semantic technologies
Linked Data
linked data
linkable [...]

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