Venue
FAO Sub-regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe (SEUR)

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Organisers/Promoters:
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
• Organic.Edunet Targeted Project, eContentplus Programme
• ASPECT Best Practice Network, eContentplus Programme

Sponsors/Supporters:
• United Nations University (UNU)
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
• Rural Inclusion Project, CIP PSP Programme
• iQTool Project, Lifelong Learning Programme
• Organic.Mednet, Lifelong Learning Programme
• European Foundation of Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA)

Objectives:
The goal of this 4-day course was to provide to developers of learning content, tools and repositories with technical expertise necessary to connect to federations of learning object repositories such as Organic.Edunet, the Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) or ARIADNE, using best practice and state-of-the-art standards as recommended in Best Practice Networks such as the ASPECT project. Focus was given to owners of existing content collections, content development and organization tools/processes, and repositories of agricultural and rural interest. To this end, the case studies presented particularly focused on examples from the agricultural sector.

Added value:
Participants had some intensive, hands-on training on current Learning Technologies (LT) standards, specifications and technologies. It helped them get a good grip of the current state-of-art in this field, and be able to quickly and easily interconnect their institution’s or initiative’s learning repository with other agricultural ones. Many participants set up a demonstrator of federating their repository.

Audience:
• Technical personnel of existing/operating AgLRs
• Technical personnel of organizations/initiatives producing learning resources of rural interest, interested in setting up an AgLR

Program
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Presentations
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Presentations from European Schoolnet
David Massart - Reusable Learning Content Discovery and Exchange
David Massart - Building a Learning Resource Exchange for Schools
David Massart - A Brief Introduction to Metadata Specifications
David Massart - Information For Learning Object eXchange (ILOX)
David Massart - Profiling Metadata Specifications
David Massart - LRE Metadata Application Profile v4.0
David Massart - Simple Query Interface (SQI)
David Massart - Learning Object Repository Registry (LORRy)
David Massart - LRE Case Study:Metadata Management
Quentin Tremerie, Tien-Dung Le, David Massart - Tools for Development
Quentin Tremerie, Tien-Dung Le, David Massart - An Implementation of SQI
Quentin Tremerie, Tien-Dung Le, David Massart - An Implementation of OAI-PMH
Quentin Tremerie, Tien-Dung Le, David Massart - Search
Quentin Tremerie, Tien-Dung Le, David Massart - Registry Samples

Presentations from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Bram Vandeputte - Metadata Harvesting and Validation
Bram Vandeputte - OAI-PMH - Practical Session
Bram Vandeputte - IEEE LOM
Bram Vandeputte, Erik Duval - ARIADNE
Gonzalo Parra - ARIADNE LOM Application Profile
Gonzalo Parra - MACE Case Study

Presentations from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Hannes Ebner - Introduction to Dublin Core Metadata
Hannes Ebner - Organic.Edunet Repository Tool

Presentation from CGIAR On-line Learning Resources (OLR)
Jan Beniest, Thomas Zschocke - CGIAR On-line Learning Resources (OLR). A learning community of practice

Presentation from the University of Alcala
Alberto Abián - Organic.Edunet Case Study: Harvesting Federated Organic AgLRs in a Portal

Presentation from the Greek Research & Technology Network
Nikos Palavitsinis - Organic.Edunet Application Profile

For additional info: aglrcourse09@grnet.gr