ADL-R: The CORDRA core


The CORDRA project postulates an open, standards-based model for how to
design and implement software systems for the purposes of discovery,
sharing and reuse of learning content through the establishment of
interoperable federations of learning content repositories. At the heart
of this project lies the ability to build aggregated registries of
content, repositories, registries and even federations. The initial
building block of this self adapting highly scalable open standards
based component is the ADL-R. This talk will describe the CORDRA project
and how the ADL-R enable its core capabilities. We will also explore the
characteristics of the ADL-R that make it a suitable match for the
CORDRA needs, and  how it integrates open standards to enable the
collection, registration, indexing and aggregation of digital resources
to make the CORDRA goals a reality.


Henry Jerez  holds a PhD. in Computer Engineering from the University of
New Mexico where his research in the area of distributed Digital Object
repositories, load balancing and wireless communications was funded by
AISTI,  Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems Latin America.
 Dr. Jerez has contributed to the area of digital libraries and Digital
Object repository architecture as a member of the Prototyping team for
the Research library at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he worked
from 2002 to 2005 performing research and development in the new
architecture for the LANL digital object architecture. Dr. Jerez has
served as faculty member, conference reviewer, enterprise consultant and
international advisor to several companies and universities across Latin
and North America. His contributions to the fields of Digital libraries,
Advanced Networks and Wireless communications are reflected in several
conference and journal articles, international presentations and a book
chapter.