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Neil McLean and Clifford Lynch, Interoperability between Library Information Services and Learning Environments - Bridging the Gaps, IMS Global Learning Consortium and the Coalition for Networked Information, June 10, 2004. The final version of the white paper (previous versions blogged here on 7/2/03 and 5/24/04). Excerpt: "The primary purpose of this paper is to explore potential interactions between information environments and learning environments, with emphasis on work that needs to be done involving standards, architectural modelling or interfaces (as opposed to cultural, organizational or practice questions) in order to permit these two worlds to co-exist and co-evolve more productively....Finally, it is important to recognize that while we have stressed architectural and standards efforts in this paper, those are only a means to an end. As they move forward, they must be complemented by experimental implementations, test beds, and other deployment efforts to validate and refine the standards and architecture work. And it is essential that we bring all of the real users and stakeholders - teachers, students, teaching assistants, librarians, records managers, graduates (former students), instructional technologists, course authors, and others - into the design, use and evaluation of these testbeds. We hope that this White Paper will also help to lead to the formulation of collaborations to advance such prototype deployment efforts." [Open Access News]
