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The CIC consortium includes 12 major Midwestern Universities. Their libraries have decided to share the cost of a joint project (2003-2006) aimed at better understanding the mechanisms by which emerging technologies and standards can facilitate metadata sharing and the creation of value-added services for their users. The CIC metadata portal project has performed advanced work in the area of Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, collection-level descriptions, metadata transformation and enrichment, and practices and usability of metadata standards. It has provided an opportunity for increased collaboration between CIC academic libraries and a way to highlight the wealth of digital resources held by the participating libraries. This article describes the project and enumerates project accomplishments. The project has helped to better the way in which partner institutions share information about digital content and provide access to digital resources. Four content providers of ...

This paper presents an innovative process to improve the quality of e-Assessment test creation and delivery. It aims to automatically generate a bank of items based on semantic and formal knowledge model. The OAT process is based on the three tools (1) OVACS to validate ontologies seamlessly and without technical skills. (2) AIGLE to generate a bank of QTI items thanks to semantic inference and (3) TAO, an e-Assessment platform, to deliver the produced items to the test-takers.

Reusability of resources is a challenge for the development of e-assessment. We have analyzed the existing frameworks reported in surveys and literature in e-assessment and complementary domains. It turns out that they insufficiently address issues such as security, accessibility, quality, and context. We suggest overcoming these barriers by integrating metadata into a multidimensional framework, which might considerably optimize the reusability of (e)-assessment resources. As part of the framework, we propose a comprehensive description of assessment data with a multi-faceted approach that allows any actor in the e-assessment lifecycle to consider the missing aspects of e-assessment materials. This framework will encourage the management, sharing, storage, and reuse of e-testing resources regardless of the form and context of assessment

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