Associate Prof. Euripides Petrakis

One of the most important applications of libraries is learning. eLearning applications are immensely more valuable when they can use the wealth of information that exists in Digital Libraries. However, Digital Libraries and their standards developed independently from eLearning applications and their standards, presenting interoperability issues between digital libraries and eLearning applications. This is a complex and multilevel problem. It is crucial to bridge the interoperability gap between digital libraries and eLearning applications in order to enable the construction of eLearning applications that easily exploit digital library contents. This thesis proposes a generic interoperability/repurposing framework implemented in a service-oriented architecture to support the construction of eLearning applications on top of Digital Libraries, focusing on multimedia Digital Libraries. This Architecture Supports Interoperability between Digital Libraries and ELearning applications (ASIDE) in a dynamic eLearning environment where learning experiences are dynamicall