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The paper deals with the design and a prototype implementation of a collaborative repository of scientific learning objects based on an efficient mechanism of filing and retrieving distributed knowledge on the Grid. The proposed repository can deal with a large variety of different learning contents. Its prototype implementation, developed for Chemistry contents, is part of an extended architecture consisting of a federation of autonomous local repositories. The federation is led by a coordinator who keeps track of the repository in which the learning objects are directly stored or referenced. In each repository server, a locally hosted Web Portal allows a easy management of the repository through a CMS front-end.
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Pallottelli, S., Tasso, S., Pannacci, N., Costantini, A., Lago, N.F. (2010). Distributed and Collaborative Learning Objects Repositories on Grid Networks. In: Taniar, D., Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Pardede, E., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010. ICCSA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6019. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12189-0_3
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