At the Conference European Schoolnet co-presented two other papers, A federated authorization service for bridging learning object distribution model by J.-N. Colin, D. Le and D. Massart, and What if annotations were reusable: a preliminary discussion by N. Manouselis and R. Vuorikari. They deal with issues regarding reusability of annotations such as tags and rating, as well as with the rights' management.

ICWL is an annual international conference on web-based learning which was held for the first time in Hong Kong in 2002. Since then it has taken place in Australia (2003), China (2004), Hong Kong (2005), Malaysia (2006), United Kingdom (2007), and China (2008). The 2009 edition was held in Aachen, Germany, and jointly organised by Hong Kong Web Society, RWTH Aachen University, and Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science.

The Best Paper Award Are tags from Mars and descriptors from Venus? A study on the ecology of educational resource metadata is available at:
http://dspace.ou.nl/handle/1820/1849

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Papers' full details

Vuorikari, R., Sillaots, M., Panzavolta, S., & Koper, R. (2009). Are tags from Mars and descriptors from Venus? A study on the ecology of educational resource metadata. In M. Spaniol (Ed.), Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 5686, pp. 400–409). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Colin, J.-N., Le, D. & Massart, D. (2009). A Federated Authorization Service for Bridging Learning Object Distribution Models. In M. Spaniol (Ed.), Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 5686, pp. 116-125). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag

Manouselis, N., & Vuorikari, R. (2009). What if annotations were reusable: a preliminary discussion. In M. Spaniol (Ed.), Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 5686, pp. 255–264). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.