Schedule
The OpeniWorld:Europe2008 printed program is now avaiable for download here.(Note that a new version has been updated as of June 24, 08)
Note that all plenary sessions will have simultaneous translations between French and English
Tuesday, June 24th
Journée sur l’interopérabilité du SIGBL-KOHA
Evening Activities
18:00 - 21:00 Registration Opens
19:00 - 21:00 Opening Reception and Cocktails
Wednesday, June 25th
Morning Sessions
9:15 - 9:30 Opening Remarks
9:30 - 10:30 Plenary: Vijay Kumar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prospective - “From Abundant Resources to
Sustainable Educational Transformation”
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Plenary: Fabrizio Cardinali
European Learning Industry Group
ELIG Perspective “Towards Open and
Standard Learning Services for Education. A
generational opportunity for Europe”
12:15 - 13:15 Showcase Demonstrations
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch
Afternoon Sessions
14:15 - 15:15 Plenary: Joshua Ferraro
LibLime
Technology - "Open Source Library
Automation: All Grown Up"
Unfinished Business: How Technology Has
(Not?) Changed our Relationship(s) to the
Humanities
Hector Vila
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee Break
OSID Interfaces for Transparent Distributed
Computing
Justin Riley
Open Educational Resources Interoperability
Sprint Outcomes: Linking OER Providers
Brandon Muramatsu
Evening Activity
19:30 Dinner Cruise on the Rhone
Thursday, June 26th
Morning Sessions
8:45 - 9:00 Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00 Plenary: Rob Abel
IMS Global Learning Consortium
Standards - “The Future of ICT Standards in
Learning”
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Outside-In: Application interoperability using
an OSID-based framework
Adam Franco
How Open Educational Standards Underlie a
Blackboard Building Block for Federated
Repository Search and Access to the
Blackboard Content System
Jeff Kahn
12:00 - 12:45 Showcase Demonstrations
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch
Afternoon Sessions
13:45 - 15:15 Plenary Panel:
“Harvesting Open Virtual Libraries for
French Language Cyber Universities”
Pr. Albert Claude Benhamou, et al
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
The Campus Project: e-learning tools and
platforms integration
Francesc delisau
16:30 - 18:00 Plenary Panel:
“OpenCourseWare: Interoperating to Open
Access to Education”
Brandon Muramatsu
Utah State University
Cecilia d’Oliveira
Massachusetts Institute of Technoloty
Willem van Valkenburg
Delft University of Technology
Evening Activity
19:00 Reception at Lyon City Hall
Friday, June 27th
Morning Sessions
An Open Content Marketplace: A Migration
Tool for All the Content Systems Across the
University
David Flanders
A Portable Common Cartridge Tool
Mark Norton
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Le patrimoine numérique des établissements
universitaires: une richesse à valoriser et à
partager avec le système ORI-OAI, ouvert et
interopérable
Monique Joly et Nolwen Huet
11:45 - 12:45 Plenary: Llorenc Valverde
Open University of Catalonia
Moving Forward - “Using OKI in Academic
and Business Environments”
12:45 - 1:15 Closing Remarks