Exposing information resources for e-learning - Harvesting
and searching IMS metadata using the OAI Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting and Z39.50
The title is a mouthful, and the paper itself
is a pretty tough read, but the topic is of significant
important to those who work in educational metadata.
Essentially, the author describes mechanisms for using the
Open Archives Initiative (OAI) harvesting protocol for the
distribution and retrieval of IMS metadata. The idea is to
have a service provide - what I have been calling a
metadata repository - collect this information and offer
the capacity to search through results collected from a
variety of sources. By Steve Richardson and Andy Powell,
Ariadne, January 14, 2003
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