Oct 15, 2009

CfA: Technical Course on Federation of Learning Repositories for Agriculture, Food and Environment

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FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
TECHNICAL COURSE ON FEDERATION OF LEARNING REPOSITORIES
FOR AGRICULTURE, FOOD & ENVIRONMENT (AgLRs)
Budapest, Hungary, November 2-5, 2009
http://aglr.aua.gr/node/4
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***APPLICATIONS' DEADLINE EXTENDED (20/10/2009) ***
***SELECTED NUMBER OF APPLICANTS TO BE OFFERED TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION GRANTS***

ORGANISED BY
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Organic.Edunet Targeted Project, eContentplus Programme ASPECT Best Practice Network, eContentplus Programme

SUPPORTED BY
ARIADNE Foundation
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
European Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA)
iQTool Project, Lifelong Learning Programme
Organic.Mednet, Lifelong Learning Programme
Rural Inclusion Project, CIP PSP Programme
United Nations University (UNU)

DATES
Applications: ***EXTENDED TO Thursday, 15 October, 2009***
Notification: ***EXTENDED TO Tuesday, 20 October, 2009***
Technical Course: Monday, 2 November – Thursday, 5 November 2009

VENUE
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)
Budapest, Hungary

OBJECTIVES
The goal of the 4-day Technical Course is to provide developers of learning content, tools and repositories with technical expertise necessary to connect to federations of learning object repositories such as Organic.Edunet, the Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) or Ariadne, using best practice and state-of-the- art standards as
recommended in Best Practice Networks such as the ASPECT project. Focus will be given to owners of existing content collections, content development and organization tools/processes, and repositories of agricultural and rural interest. To this end, the case studies to be presented will particularly focus on examples from the agricultural sector.

PROGRAMME TOPICS
* Learning resource discovery and exchange
* Reusable learning content: An overview
* Major federations of learning resource repositories: An overview
* Describing learning resources: Metadata standards
* Metadata Application Profiles
* Metadata bindings and validation
* Open Archive Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
* Implementing, describing, and harvesting an OAI-PMH target
* Structure of a query service
* The Simple Query Interface (SQI)
* Describing an SQI target
* Query languages and result formats (PLQL, LRE Context Set, IMS LOM Context Set)
* The IMS LODE Registry data model
* Describing learning resource collections
* Building a registry-driven federation
* Agricultural project case studies

VENUE
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)
Benczur utca 34, H-1068

Map to the Venue can be found here:
http://www.fao.org/regional/seur/img/map-benczur.gif
General Information about the Venue can be found here:
http://www.fao.org/world/regional/REU/contact_en.htm

ACCOMMODATION AND SOCIAL EVENTS
Hotel Benczur will be used for the participants’ accommodation. It is located opposite the meeting venue.

More information on the facilities and location can be retrieved here:
http://www.hotelbenczur.hu/en

A social events’ schedule will be announced soon.

COST OF WINTER SCHOOL
The total fee for the Technical Course will amount to 650 Euros. This fee covers the accommodation for the total duration of the event (6 nights), the participation in the course, and the participation in all the social events that will take place.

AUDIENCE
The Technical Course is intended for technical personnel of existing/ operating AgLRs as well as for technical personnel of organizations/ initiatives producing learning resources of rural interest, interested in setting up an AgLR.

APPLICATION PROCESS
In order to be considered for entering the Technical Course, applicants must send a short Curriculum Vitae, together with a brief statement of relevant AgLR activities/projects that they are involved in. All applications should be directed to aglrcourse09@ grnet.gr indicating as a subject “Application for AgLR Technical Course”. Deadline for applications is 10/10/2009.

INFORMATION
For any questions please do not hesitate to contact us at:
aglrcourse09@ grnet.gr

Web site: http://aglr.aua.gr/node/4

Please quote 10 Academic Resources Daily in your application to this opportunity!


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