Traglor: a Lom-based Digital Learning Objects Repository for Agriculture

The Turkish Agricultural Learning Objects Repository (TrAgLor) is a multilingual, context specific, and IEEE LOM Draft Standard compatible learning objects repository. Its main objective is to store digital learning objects which has been developed for agriculture, veterinary, food, environmental and forestry sciences as well as all other related basic and applied sciences. TrAgLor also enables the stored objects and their metadata are easily accessible, searchable and sharable for all kind of user parties from learners to teachers. The TrAgLor’s content is provided and enriched with contributions, discussions and evaluations by its member users and editors. The contributed objects and metadata in TrAgLor are peer-reviewed by disciplines editors, and classified and refined on their general, educational and technical characteristics. Beyond TrAgLor system is one of the vertical learning repositories for agriculture, food, veterinary and forestry sciences, it also serves as a reference model for future repositories, based on IEEE LOM draft metadata standard, in life sciences.