NEW WEB SERVICES BASED ON-THE-FLY SMIL GENERATOR ARCHITECTURE FOR HIGHLY AVAILABLE ELEARNING PRESENTATION

A. Y. Al-Zoubi, Akram Alkouz

2007

Abstract

Learning objects are usually targets to transfer from one repository to another or subject to modifications due to the unavailability of the server running the repository. Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) has recently become increasingly important in eLearning environments to integrate learning objects into a synchronized complex multimedia web presentation. However, this standard specification lacks the ability to provide alternative links in the case of repository unavailability and may occasionally lead to broken links. An outline of various aspects of the design and implementation of web services based on-the-fly SMIL generator architecture (WSOSGA) is presented in this paper. WSOSGA consists of three tiers which cooperate together in a simple way to search for multimedia learning objects both locally and in the internet, rank them based on learning objects (LO) author considerations, generate and publish the corresponding SMIL document and its XML profile. The latter will be used by the web services tiers on the target web server to generate SMIL documents on-the-fly. The major advantage of WSOSGA is thus achieved to give SMIL presentations high availability in eLearning instructional content.

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Y. Al-Zoubi A. and Alkouz A. (2007). NEW WEB SERVICES BASED ON-THE-FLY SMIL GENERATOR ARCHITECTURE FOR HIGHLY AVAILABLE ELEARNING PRESENTATION . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-79-5, pages 487-490. DOI: 10.5220/0001266804870490


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist07,
author={A. Y. Al-Zoubi and Akram Alkouz},
title={NEW WEB SERVICES BASED ON-THE-FLY SMIL GENERATOR ARCHITECTURE FOR HIGHLY AVAILABLE ELEARNING PRESENTATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3: WEBIST,},
year={2007},
pages={487-490},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001266804870490},
isbn={978-972-8865-79-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3: WEBIST,
TI - NEW WEB SERVICES BASED ON-THE-FLY SMIL GENERATOR ARCHITECTURE FOR HIGHLY AVAILABLE ELEARNING PRESENTATION
SN - 978-972-8865-79-5
AU - Y. Al-Zoubi A.
AU - Alkouz A.
PY - 2007
SP - 487
EP - 490
DO - 10.5220/0001266804870490