Harvest Road to Showcase Interoperability in Action
Friday, July 27 2007 @ 03:55 AM EDT
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Join us in New Orleans at the OpeniWorld Conference ( www.openiworld.org) to experience real-world solutions being developed in conjunction with the French Province of Lyon, Universities and Colleges (PUL) and The California State University's Digital Marketplace initiative.
HarvestRoad Hive® emphasizes discovery, collaboration, delivery and management of content. By enabling enterprises or institutions to rapidly aggregate content into a central repository and by providing federated access to other repositories it enables clients to discover, reuse and repurpose dispersed content and transform it into contextualized content that is tailored to discrete user communities.
Harvest Road's support of the O.K.I. Repository Open Service Interface Definition ensures it has the capability to provide federated search capabilities to its clients via HarvestRoad Hive® Explorer or its Configurable Interface Application, and also ensures that HarvestRoad Hive® can be searched via other Federated Search Tools. The support of open standards and specifications in Harvest Road's products have been critical to their adoption for supporting cross-enterprise solutions at The CSU and the PUL.
The PUL is an organization of 12 colleges and universities, 300 laboratories and 95,000 students in order to share, and facilitate the added value of, it’s educational resources. The University's vision is to create an organization and federation of multiple electronic document repositories (including text, audio, video, and rich media content) from it’s faculty across its many institutions.
The goal of CSU's Digital Marketplace initiative is to enable the effective distribution of network-based digital goods and resources in support of CSU academic programs. This is based on the growing need to effectively acquire, share, market, and distribute commercial and non-commercial digital learning content and resources within the institutional environment; and to integrate the content within instructional programs.
In addition, This demonstrator will focus on a number of interoperability scenarios including:
* Federated Search and Discovery of Content: Prior to authoring and assembling new Learning Objects a content author should have the ability to determine if an object already exists that can be reused and repurposed. This requires the ability to search across all available and authorized repositories or registries.
* Content Reuse: Within the HarvestRoad Hive® Explorer for RELOAD application a content author can search and discover knowledge assets that can be re-used and re-purposed within a new IMS or SCORM Content Package being assembled within RELOAD.
* Resource List Management: The RLMS (In this scenario Harvest Road's Resource List Management System) is then able to present these structured resource or reading lists to students from within the RLMS application itself or as part of an integrated offering within a Learning Management System course structure.
About HarvestRoad
HarvestRoad Limited is a technology company based in Perth, Western Australia, with local offices in Sydney, Canberra, USA, Canada, London and Lyon and global partners in Europe, UK, USA, Latin America, and Asia. Established in 1996 and publicly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange [ASX: HRD] in September 1999, HarvestRoad has developed software for the eLearning and eTraining markets in education, government, defense, and enterprise. In September 2006 market leader IBM (NYSE:IBM) became an equity stakeholder in HarvestRoad. HarvestRoad HiveR is an integral component of the IBM Collaborative Learning for Education solution.
