eBlog by Tore Hoel

This is a “position paper” for the September 24th discussion meeting, “The Future of Interoperability Standards – Technical Approaches”, organised by JISC CETIS in association with the ICOPER project.
This contribution follows up on my position statement to the January 2010 “Future of Interoperability Standards” meeting. One conclusion was that “we need a better understanding of [...]

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International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research will soon publish its issue 8(2), which is a special issue on LET standardisation. Editors are Jan M. Pawlowski, Paul A. Hollins and Tore Hoel.
LET standardisation – framing the activity space using the JITSR special issue
The simple framework of Wand and Weber (2002) (Figure 1) could be [...]

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The Umeå meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 confirmed that the co-editors of Part 5 Educational are on the right track. It seems that the consensus to build the MLR framework on semantic web / web architecture approach is more stable now, and that we have thumbs up for continuing our way to explore how to [...]

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Simon Grant has written an interesting account of his modelling efforts after the last week’s meeting of CEN WS-LT in Lyon. He describes the discussions leading up to a revision of his ongoing modelling work of the learning, assessment and awarding space - what could be seen as the abstract model of the European Learner [...]

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In their recent book chapter Jarke, Klamma & Lyytinen (2009) are exploring a framework for classifying and describing different metamodelling approaches. Their approach is captured in a nice diamond model consisting of a triangle of ontologies, notations and processes, with another triangle on top driving the analysis based on the identified goals of the information [...]

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The title is not serious. Yes, last week was the Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning 2009. And yes, I gave a lecture on roadmapping. And the whole idea of bringing together students and professors from all over Europe to the woods of Slovakia for one whole week without any chance to escape [...]

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The co-editors of Part 5 Educational of the ISO Metadata for Learning resources (MLR) standard want to make sure that we reflect the needs of different user communities defining the educational elements of this standard. Therefore, to support the co-editors will organise a number of (online) workshops, the first as a FlashMeeting in the week [...]

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Could this standardisation meeting have been done better? At times, you would not want your enemies to endure the discussions in international standardisation meeting, not to mention the political people who sponsor your travels. Everybody knows that international negotiations take time and that consensus is a nice word which means a lot of work to [...]

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Being a developing country Morocco has a rather advanced telecom sector. At least the impression you get walking the streets is of a young country crazed with the latest on the mobile front. (I never saw as many iPhones as here in Marrakech.)
So when Meditel offers mobile Internet for a sensible price (75 € [...]

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It was the eBusiness references included in the committee draft of the upcoming Metadata For Learning Resources standard that made me really start thinking of the general “soundness” of the metadata work being done in the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 Workgroup 4. Every element should be qualified as to “lexical space”, an attribute specifying the set of [...]

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