A NATIONAL OBJECT REPOSITORY:
The combination of content or objects stored on
servers and organized by metadata is the foundation
of a repository. This foundation has a number of important
features. First, any content provider can label objects
using a shared metadata scheme, post them on a server
and be confident they will be easily found by others
using the repository. Secondly, objects can be stored
on different servers in different locations but can
be accessed by anyone using the repository. An object
repository may well be a collection of distributed servers
but the user never needs to be aware of this.
Building an object repository is the first step in online
education. Whole curriculums and courses of study can
be assembled from the objects in a rich object repository.
Through the Internet, learners in all parts of the country
can use and share object repositories at any time of
the day or night.
Because of the importance of education to Canada's economic
future, building a robust infrastructure for a shared
national object repository is an important project for
the nation in the 21st Century.
Building and Deploying Advanced, Networked Applications
by Ted Hanss
CAUSE/EFFECT Volume 20, Number 2, Summer 1997, pp. 4-7.
The Internet2 Project, a consortium effort of over 100
US-based universities, is investing in the upgrade of
campus and national network platforms for application
areas advanced education. This article provides a brief
overview of the project and details issues that the
application effort intends to address.
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Object Repositories and XML [195K
by Michael Magee
An argument in favor of XML as a solution for communication
and information exchange in the digital environment.