Gang, Have just come back from yet another meeting on interoperability between digital repositories and learning management systems... I asked Neil McLean, the director of IMS Australia and author of their Digital Repository Interoperability specification if there was *anywhere* we could get our hands on 20-40K IMS metadata records right now. Answer: almost certainly no. His only suggestion was to check with the UK CETIS people (see the JORUM project at http://www.jorum.ac.uk/). My colleagues at the meeting helpfully suggested that we just take 20-40K records in some other schema and turn them into IMS records... there are crosswalks around for Dublin Core and other common metadata schemas. That, or create a thousand records by hand and clone them with minor variations. On a happier note, Bill Ying, the CTO of ArtStor, offered me as many VRA records + thumbnail images (XML encoded) as we could possibly ever want... they have a few hundred thousand now, and counting, all high quality. 40K should be no problem. So that's the story, MacKenzie/ MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries Building 14S-208 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-8184 kenzie@mit.eduReceived on Saturday, 23 August 2003 00:43:37 EDT
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