Attending

Jill Abbott
Avron Barr
Neil Cramer
John Irving
Tyde Richards (convener)
Valerie Smothers

Noted: regrets from usual participants due to I/ITSEC conference

Approval

Agenda Approved
Minutes last meeting approved

General LETSI News

LETSI is now a program of the IEEE ISTO. Much work remains to be done in terms of clarifying membership, policies and procedures, etc. but LETSI is now an "entity".

The Charter & Governance WG is coming to closure on a recommendation for a membership structure. Basically there will be two levels: individual and organizational. Both will have low financial barriers to entry. Individuals will be able to participate and vote in WGs.

The Strategic Communications WG is producing a newsletter for December release. All WGs are requested to contribute a paragram describing their activities.

A new WG will be proposed to assess the "Business Relevance" of technologies to be addressed by LETSI. This is expected to address the business case for adopting certain technologies and is expected to complement the Teaching and Learning Strategies WG focus on a learning case and the Technical Roadmap WG focus on technical feasibility. Ed Cohen has volunteered to chair the WG. The SEC will need to approve a charter.

March 2007 is a target date for LETSI to be operational and the WG should plan deliverables with this in mind.

Discussion

Framework Document

Frank Polster and Jill Abbott provided feedback on the initial draft framework document. This was presented as an Excel spreadsheet listing a column of capabilities that the next SCORM release might include with some suggested associated data elements.

Frank suggested that "simulation and game" support be added as a desired capability.

Jill requested that a possible DITA content model for SCORM content not be interpreted as the exclusive content model because SIFA has its own content/data formats and intends to keep using them. Jill also commented that more information was needed about the IMS/SC36 accessibility standard to determine if it was actually a solution for the SIFA accessibility requirements. This raises the general issue about needing more information about a number of candidate future capabilities based on standards that may not be commonly available.

Tyde suggested sharing this document with the "soon to start" SC36 SCORM Standardization Study Group.

Valerie requested that the spreadsheet be incorporated into a descriptive document that provided more information.

Neil requested that this document have an architecture diagram.

Avron commented that this document raises the issue of a modular architecture and components that make sense to implementors.

The WG agreed to produce a first draft of as discussed for the next meeting.

SC36 Study Group

The SC36 SCORM Standardization Study Group will have its first meeting via telecon the second week of December.

This activity is open for voting membership to members of WG4 (Management and Delivery) of SC36 and for observer participation to other SC36 participants. LETSI participants cannot directly participate in this because LETSI does not have a liaison status with SC36. This can be requested now that LETSI exists as an entity but will take some time to set up (probably post March 2008). Tyde is leading the Study Group on behalf of ADL and will act as the LETSI liaison.

This activity will "study" the Core SCORM proposal that ADL submitted to SC36 last August.

Tyde anticipates three major activities:

1) Document Types and Procedures
This will investigate the document types and procedures, both internal to SC36 and though interaction with LETSI, needed to pursue SCORM standardization. LETSI will retain the initiative to determine what goes into Core SCORM

2) Content Aggregation
This activity will evaluate the feasibility of using ISO/IEC 21000-2:2005 (MPEG 21.2) as a de jure standard to support content aggregation. The Core SCORM proposal suggested using this to define a cannonical reference that could be used to establish conformance for other solutions (e.g. IMS CP and DITA maps).

3) New Capabilities based on de jure standards
Accessibility and quality were identified as areas to investigate in the Core SCORM proposal. Since August, other de jure standards have been identified that may be work investigating.

It may be feasible to complete activities 1 and 2 by March 2008. Activity 3 is anticipated to take longer.

Content Aggregation Workshop

The AICC has agreed to host a content aggregation workshop in its January meeting. The actual workshop date will probably be February 1. The issue of a future content aggregation strategy for SCORM is a contentious one. The intent of this workshop is to give everyone who has a position to make their position known through a one page position statement and hopefully come up with a collective recommendation. The MPEG 21.2 strategy in the Core SCORM proposal provides a basic position for people to react to.

The WG agreed to set up a wiki page to work on some framing questions for this event by the next WG meeting.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be on Wednesday, December 12 at 1300 UTC