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News From The Gestalt Project

Introduced from 28th June 1999, this news page has been created to provide an ongoing archive of new information from Gestalt and to provide a central point for access to downloads of public documents.

April 2000:

The latest version (Version 3) of the document "D0401 Courseware Metadata Design" is now available for download. It details the design of the metadata which is being developed to describe the online learning resources being used within the GESTALT Project. This document takes the form of an Adobe® Portable Document Format (.PDF) file.

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Also made available for download (as a zipped Word file) is the document: "Integrating IMS Enterprise, PAPI and Gestalt UOM Data Models - V3". With the recent release of the IMS Enterprise data model (IMSE) addressing a similar problem space to Gestalt's EPAPI and UOM models it makes sense to try to converge the two into a common implementation. This document outlines a proposed way of converging the two data models.

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November 1999:

Meet the GESTALT Project team. For a lighthearted introduction to the characters behind the GESTALT Project, follow the link on the right. (This page is also accessible via the "Partners" page).

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Meet the Gestalt team

October 1999:

26/10: The Object (Interfaces) Specification (WP5) is now available for download. This deliverable presents the specification of the open GESTALT interfaces and the various (metatdata) Object Models which the project has used and developed. More specifically the document first provides a brief overview of the GESTALT architecture and outlines the main functional areas of the GESTALT system. This document is a Microsoft® Word document compressed as a zipped (.zip) file.

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13/10: The new Gemstones XML DTD featuring everyones new requirements ready for use is now available for download. This document takes the form of an XML DTD (.dtd) file.
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13/10: Network evaluation of the GESTALT application will be supported by the GESTALT Quality of Service (QoS) Testbed (Ghost. For further information follow this link.
Ghost web page

May 1999:

A short presentation on the requirements and functionality of Resource Discovery services (RDS) prepared by Paul Doherty of Trinity College, Dublin is now available via the Brokerage page.

Click here to go to the presentation.

March 1999:

You can now download the detailed requirements specification for GESTALT. This covers the Learning Environment, the Resource Discovery Service and the Learning Resources being constructed over the next few months.
The download is available as a zipped file containing an MS^® Word 97 Document.

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© Fretwell Downing Education, 1999.

Updated 25-OCT-1999

Send comments or questions to kriley@fdgroup.co.uk

October 1999:
26/10: The Object (Interfaces) Specification (WP5) is now available for download. This deliverable presents the specification of the open GESTALT interfaces and the various (metatdata) Object Models which the project has used and developed. More specifically the document first provides a brief overview of the GESTALT architecture and outlines the main functional areas of the GESTALT system. This document is a Microsoft® Word document compressed as a zipped (.zip) file.	Download (598Kb)
13/10: The new Gemstones XML DTD featuring everyones new requirements ready for use is now available for download. This document takes the form of an XML DTD (.dtd) file.	DTD Download (14Kb)
13/10: Network evaluation of the GESTALT application will be supported by the GESTALT Quality of Service (QoS) Testbed (Ghost. For further information follow this link.	Ghost web page

March 1999:
You can now download the detailed requirements specification for GESTALT. This covers the Learning Environment, the Resource Discovery Service and the Learning Resources being constructed over the next few months. The download is available as a zipped file containing an MS^® Word 97 Document.	Download (1342Kb)