Weekly PhD Report 51-52

• Spent time writing a part for a paper "An Overview of Learning Object Repositories" with Argiris Tzikopoulos, Nikos Manouselis. Argis has made a survey on 59 repositories, and I was asked to help writing a part of it. I wish to send you this paper for comments later this week.
• Worked on a proposal for a book chapter which would be called "Towards Interoperable Social Recommendation: Storing, Sharing, and Reusing Evaluations of Learning Objects". The idea would contribute to Jehad&all's Log specifications. This would also be used for recommendation purposes. See the attachment for more information.
• currently reading lots of papers related to this, see: http://www.furl.net/members/vuorikari/LOR and
  http://www.furl.net/members/vuorikari/recommendation
• Played around with swicki, see: http://riina1-swicki.eurekster.com/
  • Swickis are community search engines that learn from users
    
    
• Checked out http://digg.com, the new hot tool for community reviewing of news.
• Worked on Ning.com application on social recommendation with Julien, Ben and Bram. We were not able to make it search Ariadne yet, but should be feasible soon.