Paper Info
Title
Spinning Interoperable Applications for Teaching & Learning using the Simple Query Interface
Abstract
The Web puts a huge number of learning resources within reach of anyone with Internet access. However, many valuable resources are difficult to find due to the lack of interoperability among learning repositories. In order to achieve interoperability, implementers require a common query framework. This paper discusses a set of methods referred to as Simple Query Interface (SQI) as a universal interoperability layer for educational networks. The methods proposed can be used by a source for configuring and submitting queries to a target system and retrieving results from it. The SQI interface can be implemented in a synchronous or an asynchronous manner and is independent of query languages and metadata schemas. In this paper SQI's universal applicability has been evaluated by more than a dozen implementations demonstrated in three different case studies. SQI has been finalized as a standard in the CEN/ISSS Learning Technologies Workshop. Latest developments of SQI can be followed at http://www.prolearnproject.org/lori/.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2006
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
educational mediators,learning object metadata,standards,interoperability,brokerage,application program interface,learning repositories,querying,Web services
Field
DocType
Volume
Metadata,Asynchronous communication,World Wide Web,Query language,Information retrieval,Computer science,Interoperability,Implementation,Learning object,Learning object metadata,The Internet
Journal
9
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1436-4522
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.33
11
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frans Van Assche113718.05
Erik Duval2755.83
David Massart312848.13
Daniel Olmedilla466249.51
Bernd Simon54210.93
Stefan Sobernig614318.97
Stefaan Ternier720825.20
Fridolin Wild816128.71