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Packaged ContentPackaged content refers to complex resources made up from distinct media assets structured in some meaningful way. The IMS Content Packaging specification and its derivatives (e.g. IMS Common Cartridge and ADL SCORM) are well established, but newer contributions range from the semantic-web oriented OAI-ORE specification to web 2.0 approaches such as mash-ups and RSS/ATOM feeds with embedded rich media. This work relates to the Learning Resources and Activities area of the JISC eLearning Programme, and to the JISC Information Environment programme. Related topics: Portfolio, Open Educational Resources Articles
13 May 2013
Phil Barker
Every year for the past dozen or so years the Department of Information Sciences at UCL have organised a meeting on ebooks. I’ve only been to one of them before, two or three years ago, when the big issues were around what publishers’ DRM requirements for ebooks meant for libraries. I came away from that [...]
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03 May 2013
Adam's Workblog
The ease with which data can be transferred without loss of meaning from a store to an analytical tool - whether this tool is in the hands of a data scientist, a learning science researcher, a teacher, or a learner – and the ability of these users to select and apply a range of tools [...]
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21 Jan 2013
Phil Barker
I went to a meeting for stakeholders interested in the eTernity (European textbook reusability networking and interoperability) initiative. The hope is that eTernity will be a project of the CEN Workshop on Learning Technologies with the objective of gathering requirements and proposing a framework to provide European input to ongoing work by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC36, [...]
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20 Dec 2012
Phil Barker
The joint CETIS and UKOLN Observatory has just published a report “Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Education” written by James Clay. My CETIS colleague Li and I wrote the foreword for this report, which I’ve reproduced here but really you would be better going to the observatory and downloading the whole [...]
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05 Dec 2012
Lorna M. Campbell
As a result of a request from the Cabinet Office to contribute to a paper on the use of hackdays during the procurement process, CETIS have been revisiting the “Codebash” events that we ran between 2002 and 2007. The codebashes were a series of developer events that focused on testing the practical interoperability of implementations [...]
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Packaged Content EventsPast Events  Packaged Content ResourcesTranscoder final report
Date: Apr 2010
The transcoder project set out to develop and trial a cloud based service that can change one type of educational content package into another (i.e. transcode).
Content Transcoder project
Date: Jul 2008
Information on the Transcoder Project
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Eductional Technology Standards Review October 2008
Date: Oct 2008
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