ims content packaging ieee ramlet update

IMS Content PackagingIEEE RAMLETupdate

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Introduction

IMS Content Packaging 1.2 What it is What's new in this version Where the process is at

IEEE Resource Aggregation Model for Learning, Education and Training (RAMLET)

What it enables What it is Where we're at

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What is IMS Content Packaging?

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What is new in IMS Content Packaging 1.2

Metadata element and other fixes Providing alternative resources with different

accessibility characteristics Resource vocabulary

used to be just ‘webcontent’ and scattered IMS specific types (QTI items etc.)

now is an extensible vocabulary in a VDEX file can be extended by anyone

Organization vocabulary used to be just ‘hierarchical’ extensible (e.g. use TopicMaps)

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What is new in IMS Content Packaging 1.2

Ipointer:

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Where CP 1.2 is at

Public draft 1 was out IMS internal draft 2 documentation set nearly done:

just the best practice remains To be made public after testing and implementation

by IMS members Then to move to IEEE LTSC for standardisation

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The issue IEEE RAMLET addresses

Though IMS Content Packaging works in VLE-land, other specifications are used by 'adjacent' areas:

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) MPEG-21 Digital Item Description (DID) IETF Atom, and various flavours of RSS ...

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RAMLET is

An ontology in Web Ontology Language (OWL) A human readable model

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Where RAMLET is at

Use case document out METS and IMS Content Packaging mapping

complete Work on MPEG 21 DID and IETF Atom started Work on human readable description started

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Questions?

IMS Content Packaging: http://imsglobal.org/content/packaging/index.html

IEEE RAMLET: http://www.ieeeltsc.org/wg11CMI/ramlet/

w.g.kraan@ovod.net