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Building Synergies between Europeana and

the LRE for schoolsDavid Massart, EUN

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Learning Resource Exchange (LRE)

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LRE public portal http://lreforschools.eun.org

• LRE public portal officially launched Dec 2008

• A ‘re-branded’ version of the MELT portal

• Over 175,000 resources/assets from 30 providers

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LRE Metadata Application Profilehttp://fire.eun.org/LREMAPv4p0.pdf

• Profile of IEEE LOM and IMS ILOX

• Adapted to the needs of the School Community in Europe– Learning Resource Type– Intended End-User Role– Learning Context– Typical Age Range– Classification (LRE Thesaurus)

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Europeana offers millions of digital resources potentially useful for Education

• How do we describe them with educational metadata

• In an automatic way

• So that teachers and their pupils can select access relevant resources

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The LRE Way (1)

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The LRE Way (2)

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Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content - ASPECT

• ASPECT – http://aspect-project.org

• 30-month Best Practice Network (Sept 08-Feb 11)

• European Commission eContentplus program

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ASPECT Aims

• Developing best practice approaches to implementing standards for educational content discovery and use

• Improving the adoption of learning technology standards and specifications

• Impacting on pre-standardization activities

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ASPECT Service Center

1. LOR Registry

2. Vocabulary Bank

3. Application Profile Registry

4. Automatic metadata language translation

5. Automatic metadata format transformation

6. Automatic content format transcoding

7. Compliance testing

8. Identifier service – handle

9. Access to known interoperability issues

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http://aspect.vocman.com/

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Conclusion

• The perspective to offer cultural heritage resources to educators is very appealing

• The problems raised are as huge as the quantity of resources available

• There is no magic solution

• We need to be creative

• It’s gonna be FUN