Federation of learning repositories for agriculture food & environment - technical course in Budapest

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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND 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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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)
iQTool Project, Lifelong Learning Programme
Organic.Mednet, Lifelong Learning Programme
Rural Inclusion Project, CIP PSP Programme
United Nations University (UNU)
DATES
Applications: Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Notification: Friday, 16 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 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 Ė 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 participantsí 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 Winter School 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 of the Winter School 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. The one-day workshop is aimed at representatives/presenters of existing AgLRs and representatives of organizations/initiatives producing learning resources of rural interest, aiming at setting up an AgLR
APPLICATION PROCESS
In order to be considered for entering the Winter School, 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 ďApplication for AgLR Technical CourseĒ. Deadline for applications is 10/10/2009.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
Program Chairs:
* Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network, Greece
* David Massart, European Schoolnet, Belgium
* Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and ARIADNE Foundation
Local Arrangement Chairs:
* Michal Demes, FAO SEUR, Hungary
* Lazslo Radics, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Program Committee (tentative):
* Alexander Sideridis, EFITA and Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
* Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
* Bram Vandeputte, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Constantina Costopoulou, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
* Frans Van Assche, European Schoolnet, Belgium
* Gonzalo Parra, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Hannes Ebner, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
* Howard Beck, University of Florida, USA
* Jan Beniest, World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya
* Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy
* Joris Klerkx, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Karel Charvat, Czech Centre for Science and Society, Czech Republic
* Melanie Gardner, AgNIC, USA
* Salvador Sanchez, University of Alcala, Spain
* Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
* Stephen Rudgard, Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy
* Thomas Zschocke, United Nations University, Germany
* Venkataraman Balaji, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, India
Secretariat:
* Nikos Palavitsinis, Greek Research & Technology Network, Greece
INFORMATION
For any questions please do not hesitate to contact us at:
aglrcourse09@grnet.gr
Web site: http://aglr.aua.gr/node/4