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Ariadne (named for the figure from
Greek mythology
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) is a
Europe
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an association for sharing knowledge and fostering international cooperation in teaching that is open to the world.
Ariadne was initiated in 1996 by the
European Commission
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's telematics for education and training program. Since then, an infrastructure has been developed in
Belgium
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and
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
for the production of reusable learning content, including distributed storage and discovery, as well as its exploitation in structured courses. The core of this infrastructure is a distributed library of digital, reusable educational components called the ''Knowledge Pool System'' (KPS) now actively used in both academic and corporate contexts.
End users interact with the KPS through client tools. Java and web applications allow users to insert documents and their associated metadata into the KPS, search for relevant documents, and download them from the KPS. Java applications interact with the KPS through the ''ARIADNE Web Services''. The ARIADNE Web Services provide an API that hides the database access details and also enables interoperability with other repositories.
The ARIADNE toolset contains the following components:
*The ARIADNE KPS Client
*SILO, the current Indexation- and Query tool for learning objects AMG a component that leverages existing libraries for automatic metadata generation
*A LOM based
Federated search
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engine, that dynamically searche other (more learning technology oriented) search systems like Lionshare, Merlot, Edna, NIME, etc.
See also
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List of content management systems
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Open source software
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