LODE 2007

First International Workshop on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE 2007)

Draft proceedings

CALL FOR PAPERS

The LODE workshop is held in conjunction with the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07),?Crete, Greece, September 17-20, 2007


CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES

Although the use of learning (content) management systems is becoming common in most educational organizations and the number of educational resources available online, for free or by subscription, is huge, most of these resources are hidden in repositories and cannot be easily found, which hampers their potential use and reuse.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working at unlocking the educational content hidden in repositories and facilitating the retrieval and exchange of this content. The workshop aims at providing an international forum to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the issues and innovative approaches in the field. Therefore, the workshop welcomes original/position/work-in-progress/experience papers on all aspects related to the discovery and retrieval of distributed learning resources. Submissions that identify new issues and focused directions for future work in the area are also welcome.

The workshop will be strongly discussion-oriented. To that effect, all accepted papers and posters will be made available online before the workshop at http://fire.eun.org/lode2007/.


TOPICS OF INTEREST (include, but are not limited to)

• Reusable resources
  • Resource identification
  • Open content and reusable resource licensing
• Metadata
  • Standards and application profiles
  • Automatic metadata generation vs human indexing
  • Intellectual property and metadata
  • Mapping and crosswalks between metadata standards
• Repositories
  • Interoperable content and metadata repositories
  • Protocols for exposing content
• Discovering content
  • User profiling for more accurate resource discovery
  • Content aggregation
  • Service Registries
  • Interoperable query languages
  • Harvesting vs federated searching
  • Enhanced search mechanism
  • Inclusion of other type of content (library, cultural heritage)
  • Recommendation systems
  • Quality aspects
• Exchanging content
  • Reliable auditing (tracking, reporting)
  • DRM, licensing and content protection
• WEB-2.0 approaches (folksonomies, content syndication)
• Semantic web approaches

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (8 pages), work-in-progress as short papers (max. 4 pages) or position statements (max. 2 pages). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity and quality. ??Accepted papers will be published online as EC-TEL workshop proceedings as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series, ISSN 1613-0073.?Authors should use the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs). For camera-ready format instructions, please see “For Authors“ instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

All questions and submissions should be sent to: lode2007 @ eun . org??


IMPORTANT DATES

• Paper Submission: June 27, 2007
• Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2007
• Camera Ready Submission: August 15, 2007
• Workshop dates: September 17 or 18, 2007

ORGANISERS

• David Massart, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium
• Jean-Noël Colin, Sun Microsystems, Belgium

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Kerry Blinco, DEST, Australia
• Erik Duval, KUL, Belgium
• Mike Halm, PennState University, USA
• Marek Hatala, SFU, Canada
• Robert Kristofl, BMBWK, Austria
• François Magnan, Teluq, Canada
• Jon Mason, InterCog, Australia
• Martin Morrey, Intrallect, UK
• Gilbert Paquette, Teluq, Canada
• Fredrik Paulsson, Umeå University, Sweden
• Tomasz Orzechowski, AGH, Poland
• Alain Pirotte, UCL, Belgium
• Daniel Rehak, University of Memphis, USA
• Griff Richards, SFU, Canada
• Bernd Simon, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria
• James Simon, Sun Microsystems, USA
• Stefaan Ternier, KUL, Belgium
• Tsuneo Yamada, NIME, Japan