IDEA 2007
Integrated Education Infrastructure:
Innovation and use of technology in education
8 - 11 October 2007
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
IDEA Lab
Monday 8th October 2007IDEA Lab is a series of workshops aimed at education and research infrastructure implementers,
providing technical updates and demonstrations of new technologies.
Registration Cost: $125.00 - inclusive of GST
Workshop Location: PLAZA 1
Speakers' presentations are now available for download. PowerPoint presentations are listed below within each speaker's session.
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Registration and Beverages - Foyer |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Welcome and Introductions |
| 9:15 - 10:45 | Using Persistent IdentifiersDennis Macnamara, Project Manager This workshop will be an ideal introduction to persistent identifier management applicable to all sectors of education, research and cultural institutions. It will present outputs from the PILIN project and discuss some of the challenges of building a persistent identifier service for Australia. It will demonstrate the Handle identifier technology used in the project. Software toolkits for identifier management will be made available to workshop attendees. Policy guidelines developed as part of the project will be discussed and participants will be invited to comment on policy priorities. Presentation: Powerpoint Presentation (1.33Mb) |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Morning Tea - Foyer |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | An Introduction to OpenURLDr. Nick Nicholas, Business Analyst FRED Project, Link Affiliates The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services is a NISO standard that defines an interface specification for requesting services related to a resource. Service requests identify the resource and the context in which the request is taking place. This workshop will first provide a overview of the specification, and then will discuss and demonstrate actual applications within the library and education communities. Presentation: Powerpoint Presentation (1.75Mb) |
| 12:30 - 1:15 | Lunch - Foyer |
| 1:15 - 2:45 | IMS Common CartridgeDr. Nigel Ward, Director Australian ADL Partnership Lab, Link Affiliates Common Cartridge is a platform independent content format being developed by the IMS Global Learning Consortium. The specification collects and profiles a number of existing learning content specifications such as IMS Content Packaging, IMS Question & Test Interoperability, IMS Tools Interoperability, and IEEE Learning Object Metadata. The Common Cartridge consortium plans to release compliant systems and content by January 2008. This workshop will provide an overview of the specification and demonstrate early release Common Cartridge tools and content. Presentation: Powerpoint Presentation (2.2Mb) |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Afternoon Tea - Foyer |
| 3:00 - 4:30 | Accessibility and FLUIDLiddy Nevile, Adjunct Associate Professor, La Trobe University There are several approaches combining to tackle the accessibility problem - making the Web accessible to everyone to achieve an inclusive Web. The original standards aimed to make all content universally accessible, but that was impossible so they are being revised. The AccessForAll approach aims to make all content publishing services inclusive, using standards for composing resources from suitable components according to user needs. This approach spreads the responsibility for the services to simplify conformance. Finally, the FLUID project aims to provide a living library of sharable user interface components for reuse across community source projects to support flexibility and customization. This workshop will introduce participants to all these developments. Presentation: Powerpoint Presentation (18.2Mb) |
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