OAI and OAI-PMH for absolute beginners : a non-technical introduction

Tutorial : overview of key Open Archives Initiative (OAI) concepts, development of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), non-technical introduction to main underlying technical ideas, some considerations regarding implementation of OAI-PMH

OAI and OAI-PMH for absolute beginners : a non-technical introduction

Tutorial : overview of key Open Archives Initiative (OAI) concepts, development of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), non-technical introduction to main underlying technical ideas, some considerations regarding implementation of OAI-PMH

Rethinking Educational Design in New\u27 School Construction

The primary impetus to new school construction, of course, typically involves relieving overcrowding or replacing outdated or dangerous facilities. Bradley (1996), however, in a study about the role of architecture in education, notes that the physical structure of a school has the potential to be a vehicle for change. In other words, the design. of school facilities can inspire alterations in the nature, quality, and future direction of what goes on inside. The present study sought to determine the extent to which five school systems in Virginia took advantage of building a new secondary school to address the need for fundamental educational change

eBank UK: linking research data, scholarly communication and learning

This paper includes an overview of the changing landscape of scholarly communication and describes outcomes from the innovative eBank UK project, which seeks to build links from e-research through to e-learning. As introduction, the scholarly knowledge cycle is described and the role of digital repositories and aggregator services in linking data-sets from Grid-enabled projects to e-prints through to peer-reviewed articles as resources in portals and Learning Management Systems, are assessed. The development outcomes from the eBank UK project are presented including the distributed information architecture, requirements for common ontologies, data models, metadata schema, open linking technologies, provenance and workflows. Some emerging challenges for the future are presented in conclusion