Buzz - Ims Content Packaging

• Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008

  Sarah Currier gives an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata.

• Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing

  Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development.

• Exposing Information Resources for E-learning

  Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol.

• 5 Step Guide to Becoming a Content Provider in the JISC Information Environment

  Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE.