The LRE Service Centre supported by ASPECT

As a Best Practice Network, ASPECT aims to improve the adoption of learning technology standards and specifications. More specifically, ASPECT is exploring two categories of specifications: specifications for content use (e.g., content packaging formats) and specifications for content discovery (e.g., metadata, vocabularies, protocols, and registries).

As a result of these activities, ASPECT produces recommendations and best practices for an efficient use of these standards and specifications and provides tools, services and

documentation to support these practices. These are gathered together (and will be maintained after the end of the ASPECT project) in the LRE Service Centre which is part of European Schoolnet’s Learning Resource Exchange service for schools.

The LRE Service Centre is available online at http://servicecenter.aspect-project.org

Currently, the LRE Service Centre includes materials, tools and services on the following:

Content:

• What is content packaging? What packaging formats exist? How do they differ?
• How to package content and validate packages.
• How to transcode (i.e., convert) content in a format into another format.

Metadata management

• The LRE Metadata Profile
• Metadata validation
• Metadata transformation
• Metadata automatic translation
• Learning object identification
• Controlled vocabulary management

Repository interoperability

• Metadata search
• Metadata harvesting

As the ASPECT project moves forward and new materials, tools and services are produced, the LRE Service Centre will be regularly updated.