http://seam.eun.org

CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION
Over the last fifteen years, considerable effort has been spent on the development of standards and specifications to improve the interoperability of e-learning systems, repositories, and content. These efforts have led to significant advances in the arena of technical interoperability. These advances have made possible the emergence and expansion of successful federations and alliances of learning object repositories such as the Learning Resource Exchange, ARIADNE, GLOBE, and more recently the Learning Registry. The evolution and adoption of standards such as the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM), the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), and the Simple Query Interface (SQI) provided the building blocks for these successes. More recent developments in this field include the definition of a Simple Publishing Interface (SPI) and the ongoing work within the IMS Global Learning Consortium on the Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE
) specification to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects stored across more than one collection. The development of best practices (for example by projects like ASPECT and ICOPER), enabling more efficient use of these standards and specifications, has also proven instrumental for current learning content retrieval infrastructures.

However, newly emerging practices emphasizing community driven learning necessitate that researchers and practitioners approach the concept of Òlearning resourceÓ as a more expansive category that includes people, events and tools. Seen from this perspective, it is imperative to extend currently available tools, specifications and techniques to support the integration and interoperability of three components. The first of these components will remain content in learning object repositories. The second component can be people themselves who often play more than one role in learning and teaching (teachers, co-learners, coaches, tutors, subject experts, museum curators, community groups, etc.) and events relevant for teaching and learning. Tools and services are the third component. These may include authoring tools; synchronous and asynchronous communication and collaboration tools; learning planning and management tools; interactive learning and teaching devices includ
ing whiteboards, response systems and scientific input devices such as data loggers; resource discovery and information management services etc.

To further developments in this field, the main goal of this international workshop is to offer a forum where researchers and practitioners can discuss theoretical aspects, open issues, and innovative approaches and share the latest advances in the state of the art and practices for exchanging and describing learning content, roles, actors, tools and services. This year's workshop will include presentations of both long and short refereed papers as well as panel discussions and a keynote presentation.

NB: SE@M 2011 is organized as a workshop of EC-TEL 2011 (http://www.ec-tel.eu/) 20-23 September, 2011.

THEMES (include, but are not limited to)

* Infrastructures for resource (e.g., content, people, tools and services) discovery and exchange
    o Interoperable resources and metadata repositories
    o Protocols for exposing resources
    o Federations of learning resources
    o Service registries
* Metadata Management
    o Standards, application profiles and application profile registries
    o Metadata conformance, testing and validation services
    o Automatic metadata generation versus human indexing
    o Controlled vocabularies, translations, crosswalks and controlled vocabulary management and tools
    o Protocols and techniques for metadata exchange
    o Infrastructure for mass metadata processing
    o Techniques for achieving metadata interoperability
    o Inclusion of other types of content (library, cultural heritage)
* Discovering content
    o User profiling for more accurate resource discovery
    o Retrieval of learning resources (searching, browsing)
    o Interoperable query languages
    o Enhanced search mechanism (sorting, ranking)
    o Paradata and recommendation systems
    o Cross-border reuse of resources
* Exchanging resources
    o Resource identification
    o Reliable auditing (tracking, reporting)
    o Use tracking
* Beyond content

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (max. 10 pages) or work-in-progress as short papers (max. 5 pages). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity and quality. Accepted papers will be published online as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series, ISSN 1613-0073.

Authors should use the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs). For camera-ready format instructions, please see 'For Authors' instructions at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Submissions, and questions, should be sent to seam@eun.org
Those interested in demonstrating their work during the workshop are also invited to contact the organizers at seam@eun.org.

IMPORTANT DATES
* 30 June 2011: Paper Submission deadline
* 3 August 2011: Notification of acceptance
* 15 August 2011: Camera Ready Submission
* 20 or 21 September 2011: Workshop

LOCATION
The workshop will take place at the same venue as EC-TEL 2011 http://www.ec-tel.eu/

ORGANISERS
David Massart, European Schoolnet, Belgium
Elena Shulman, European Schoolnet, Belgium

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Luis Anido, University of Vigo, Spain
* Jean-Noel Colin, University of Namur, Belgium
* Ingo Dahn, University of Koblenz, Germany
* Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Joris Klerkx, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Manuel Kolp, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
* Eugenijus Kurilovas, ITC, Centre of Information Technologies of Education, Lithuania
* Tien-Dung Le, European Schoolnet, Belgium
* Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network, Greece
* Tomasz Orzechowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
* Jon Phipps, JES&Co, USA
* Alain Pirotte, UniversitŽ catholique de Louvain, Belgium
* Daniel Rehak, ADL, USA
* Griff Richards, Athabasca University, Canada
* Bernd Simon, WU-Wien, Austria
* Stefaan Ternier, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands
* Michael Totschnig, WU-Wien, Austria
* Frans Van Assche, Ariadne Foundation, Belgium
* Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet, Belgium
* Nigel Ward, University of Queensland, Australia