Monday, November 18, 2002

I have demonstrations of how one can create METS and IMS content packages dynamically from Amazon search results.

Discuss

Thursday, November 14, 2002

It would be good to write up what I have so far. I have old work from before that focused on converting MOA2 to various formats (HTML, RSS, OPML, IMS-CP). I've basically migrated that work to METS now. I should put up my various XSLT:

• METS to IMS-CP (no metadata):  http://interactiveu.berkeley.edu/gems/creatingcontent/metstoimscpv1.xsl
• METS to IMS-CP (simple GDM to LOM metadata crosswalk): http://interactiveu.berkeley.edu/gems/creatingcontent/metstoimscpv2.xsl  
• Amazon Lite to IMS-CP (very simple metadata translation): http://interactiveu.berkeley.edu/gems/creatingcontent/amazonlitetoIMSv1.xsl
• Amazon Lite to METS (no metadata)
  http://interactiveu.berkeley.edu/gems/creatingcontent/amazonlitetoMETSv1.xsl

More tomorrow on what these XSLT mean -- and how to apply them! The stylesheets are illustrative of what can be done -- there is a lot of room for improvement.

Tuesday, September 3, 2002

The IU was awarded funding from the e-Berkeley Innovation Fund for a Creating and sharing content for teaching and learning proposal.  We are gearing up on the reporting and dissemination of our work for the project. 

This site will report the status and host the deliverables for the Creating and sharing content for teaching and learning project. 

Creating and sharing content for teaching and learning will explore how to develop online educational content that is more accessible, modular, flexible, and reusable than the current HTML-based materials. To achieve these goals, the project team will experiment with new content creation tools including XML-based technologies, METS digital library objects, the IMS web learning standards, and learning management systems such as WebCT. IST and the Library are carrying out the project.

Obviously, this site has just been set up and is "under construction".