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Technical congress proceedings as a reusable digital objects educational source

Abstract:

The use of technical articles in scientific and academic scopes is a well-known way to extend new creations and researching jobs throughout the world, mainly as a communication medium of knowledge among educational professionals. Nowadays, with no doubt, the Internet, is the usual way to spread any kind of documentation. Authors send the contents of their publications, based on a typical scheme composed by an abstract for a first understanding of the paper, some names, references and a further content development, using textual descriptions and graphical support elements. These parts of the document are conformed in a unique data unit. However, even the article taking part of the congress edition, the access way to it, is made through the digital media given by the congress. So, only if some congress query media are developed, it's successly possible to access to a certain article information. The experience shown in the content of this paper gives a solution to this access problem and bases its development on the information treatment of a congress as digital learning objects. By this way, a technical paper is treated as an information unit which is composed by a data background, essentially the metadata, which are recovered and isolated in every individual documentation. Once a digital object and its metadata are disposed, congress edition conforms a structured data block, accessible not only in the congress scope but outside it. The use of metadata standards, as IEEE-LOM, let to information being built in digital platforms and repositories to be treated as congress information, as an individual article and even, some of its parts, as reusable digital objects © 2010 IEEE.