SCORM/NSDL Technical Meeting
Alexandria, Virginia
May 18, 2004

*** Draft Report ***

Report

This is the draft report of the meeting held on May 18, 2004 to discuss opportunities for technical collaboration.The NSF's National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative's Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM).

Technical Background

The following short description of the technical background, the major topics to be discussed and some background reading was circulated to participant before the meeting.

Report

The structure of the report follows the topics covered in the meeting.

   1. Background
      1.1 The NSDL
      1.2 SCORM and CORDRA

   2. Identification
      2.1 The Handle System
      2.2 Discussion of identification

   3. Information Discovery

   4. Persistence and reuse
      4.1 Reuse
      4.2 Discussion of reuse

   5. Actions

Slides

Slides used by presenters during the meeting:

   William Arms: the NSDL
   Philip Dodds: SCORM and CORDRA
   Larry Lannom: the Handle System
   Daniel Rehak: Questions about identification
   Robby Robson: Reuse
   William Arms: Persistence

Attendees

List of Attendees

About the meeting and the report

The meeting was hosted by the Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia. The organizing committee.

   William Arms, Cornell University (NSDL)
   Daniel Rehak, Carnegie Mellon University (SCORM)
   Philip Dodds, Institute for Defense Analyses (SCORM)
   Lee Zia, National Science Foundation (NSDL)

This report is a collection of notes and slides created by William Arms, Kerry Blinco, Larry Lannom, Daniel Rehak, Philip Dodds and Robby Robson. They have been lightly edited by Bill Arms. The report is intended to be a summary of the discussions at the meetings, not a agreement of conclusions and decisions for future action.