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# Services, repositories, elearning, metadata, ...
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/services-repositories-elearning-metadata/
- Published: 2005-02-17T17:41:32.000Z
- Updated: 2005-02-17T17:41:32.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Research ∕ Learning, Systems

Wilbert Kraan of CETIS has a nice overview of some recent meetings surrounding the IMS Melbourne meeting. Discussion about service-oriented-architectures, repositories, metadata and all the usual suspects. 

> Having said all of that, John’s main argument is that the e-learning is in the middle of a second wave. The first was about the spread of VLEs, which was necessary and useful, but VLEs are often “delibarately restricted in their ability to share and re-use”. The second wave are about the spread of repositorires, or, in John’s admirably self-deprecating phrase a “Content bridge over a river of uncertainty \[of VLE vendor viability and choice\]”. \[[CETIS-Interoperability state of play at IMS Melbourne meeting](https://www.cetis.ac.uk/content2/20050213085236?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

(A *virtual learning environment* is a *learning management system* or *course management system*.)