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The combination of content or objects stored on servers
and organized by metadata is the foundation of a repository.
This foundation has a number of important features.
First, any content provider can label objects using
a shared metadata scheme, post them on a server and
be confident they will be easily found by others using
the repository. Secondly, objects can be stored on different
servers in different locations but can be accessed by
anyone using the repository. An object repository may
well be a collection of distributed servers but the
user never needs to be aware of this.
Building an object repository is the first step in online
education. Whole curriculums and courses of study can
be assembled from the objects in a rich object repository.
Through the Internet, learners in all parts of the country
can use and share object repositories at any time of
the day or night.
Because of the importance of education to Canada's economic
future, building a robust infrastructure for a shared
national object repository is an important project for
the nation in the 21st Century.
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Internet2: Building and Deploying Advanced, Networked
Applications by
Ted Hanss CAUSE/EFFECT Volume 20, Number 2, Summer
1997, pp. 4-7.
The Internet2 Project, a consortium effort of over 100 US-based
universities, is investing in the upgrade of campus and
national network platforms for application areas advanced
education. This article provides a brief overview of the
project and details issues that the application effort
intends to address.
MERLOT
(Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online
Teaching)
A resource and community for educators and students in higher
education, offering free access to more than 3700 web-based
learning materials in a range of disciplines.
Educational Object Repositories and XML[195K PDF File] by Michael Magee
An argument in favor of XML as a solution for communication and information exchange in the digital environment.
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