Technical projects

The Le@rning Federation's ICT initiatives include the following.

Sharing Exchange Services

The Sharing Exchange Services project is one of TLF's key Phase Three deliverables, and has been developed in collaboration with two DEST-funded national projects, PILIN and FRED.

The project aims to create a national-level facility to share digital learning content. It requires the development of a central content repository and a metadata registry and will provide sophisticated content discovery mechanisms to schools.

It is made up of three sub-projects: The Sharing Exchange, the Metadata harvester, and the Identifier and access service.

Learn more about Sharing Exchange Services.

TLF Content Repository

TLF has developed a content repository interface that allows users to:

• discover more than 5,000 items of high-quality digital curriculum content for teaching and learning in Australian and New Zealand schools;
• find interactive learning objects, images, audio files and movie clips;
• benefit from sophisticated Schools Online Thesaurus-based browse, search and filter technology;
• create personal favourite lists of resources.

Learn more about TLF Content Repository.

The Exchange

TLF has developed a content management system and an interoperability framework for creating, distributing and managing content and intellectual property rights.

The content management system, the Exchange, is a repository that:

• assists with managing the development of, and quality assurance processes for, TLF content;
• manages the intellectual property rights of TLF content;
• supports the delivery of online curriculum content to all school education jurisdictions in Australia and New Zealand.

Learning objects and digital resources are stored in the Exchange repository in a form that is accessible and compatible with the online learning services of the Australian states and territories and New Zealand. Compatibility has been made possible by the development of an interoperability framework that ensures all education systems and schools can access TLF content within their standard operating environments.

Content Rights Information System Project (CRISP)

The TLF-developed CRISP manages the rights for materials sourced from third parties. CRISP collects and holds the digital rights of third-party providers and packages this with TLF content in the Exchange. The rights information is communicated in the Conditions of use statement attached to all TLF learning objects and digital resources.