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    <journal-meta>
        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU</journal-id>
        <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Informatics in Education</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">1648-5831</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-5831</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
        </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
                <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFE018</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2003.13</article-id>
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            <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
                <subject>Article</subject>
            </subj-group>
        </article-categories>
                        <title-group>
            <article-title>Migration of E-Learning Objects from Database to IMS XML Standard</article-title>
        </title-group>
                        <contrib-group>
                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>BALBIERIS</surname>
                    <given-names>Giedrius</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:balbgied@pit.ktu.lt">balbgied@pit.ktu.lt</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_000"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">Computer Networking Department, Kaunas University of Technology Studentu 50-416, LT-3031 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>REKLAITIS</surname>
                    <given-names>Vytautas</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:vytas@is.uec.ac.jp">vytas@is.uec.ac.jp</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_001"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_001">Graduate School of Information Systems University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan</aff>
                                </contrib-group>
                                                                                                        <volume>2</volume>
                                <issue>2</issue>
                                    <fpage>181</fpage>
                        <lpage>190</lpage>
						<pub-date pub-type="epub">
                        <day>15</day>
                                    <month>10</month>
                        <year>2003</year>
        </pub-date>
                                                        <abstract>
                        <p>Since establishment of World Wide Web a number of e-learning tools and resources have been created and successfully used in every educational institution. Established standards such as IMS and SCORM currently provide means for e-learning asset portability and reuse. Most of such implementations have a database back-end. Data from such a back-end RDBMS can be exported into IMS XML and used by standard compliant e-learning platforms. After reviewing facilitating technologies and similar solutions authors state that there is no viable solution for database to IMS conversion. Next they present own DB-to-IMS XML conversion method. As a conversion example authors introduce and use own developed EduMMDB - a set of e-learning tools with database back-end. After presenting conversion tool ELSTD authors summarize gained experience and possibilities of improvement.</p>
                    </abstract>
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            <label>Keywords</label>
                        <kwd>e-learning object</kwd>
                        <kwd>conversion database</kwd>
                        <kwd>IMS XML standard</kwd>
                    </kwd-group>
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