Re: [announcement] IMS-Support

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On August 18, 2003 05:55 am, Jens W. Klein wrote:
> The EduZope Initiative - in core OpenSource.AGentur, BlueDynamics,
> solution2u.net and jens quadrat - are implementing the
> IMS-ContentPackaging (CP) Specification for use with Plone.
>
> We're also on IMS-LOM ( and building a prototype application for
> IMS-Learning-Design (LD) and IMS-QTI (Lite).
>
> At the Educational Sprint in Paderborn (and hopefully at Castle-Sprint)
> we should be able to demonstrate IMS-CP export and the generic model
> behind it. May be we're able to present parts of the other specs too.

It's really great to hear that. Our university is participating in 
pan-Canadian project to implement IMS standarts for interoperability between 
universities in Canada (EduSource). I'm really eager to see what you gyus 
have to say about your developments/research since Plone is considered our 
main platform for content management and learning objects are considered to 
be contents ;)

> If you're interested in participating or contributing contact us :
> jens dot klein at jensquadrat dot de
> or Georg Pleger:
> georg dot pleger at opensource dot ag
>
> greetz from tirol/austria
>
> Jens Klein
> aka Jensens
>
> PS.: Our website eduzope.org is a bit outdated and a relauch is in
> progress. Only a matter of time :-)

We would really like to participate but more info would help us better 
understand EduZope's guidelines etc. So we eagerely waiting for site update.

Some of the questions we have:
1. Do you store learning objects/metadata as raw XML or strip it to 
fields/containers and render them on request?
2. Do you plan to use different storage models (not types - like archetypes 
have it by default)? (our gyus are trying to implement Oracle/XML storage 
fully compliant with IMS specs. which will be used also from J2EE 
environment)
3. Is there any "staging" planned? Something like: "current editing copy", 
"published copy", "archived copy"?

- -- 
Dmitry Makovey
Web Systems Administrator
Athabasca University
(780) 675-6245
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