IMS VDEX - Implementations

Implementations

  • ALOHA Metadata Tagging Tool — Java-based software project that can read IMS VDEX files.
  • IVIMEDS 1G v1.0 – from The International Virtual Medical School – includes VDEX instances in curriculum maps. Partners can create their own maps in VDEX format and use these to help students search the repository.
  • Skills Profiling Web Service — project implemented and demonstrated use of a skills profiling web service using open standards in a medical context. IMS VDEX files were used in the representation of the SPWS hierarchy skills framework.
  • Scottish Doctors — project used VDEX as a format for expressing curricular outcome systems.
  • VDEX XSLT scripts — developed by The Higher Education Academy Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies to convert VDEX to XHTML and PostgreSQL .
  • VDEX Implementation Project — carried out by the Institute for Computer Based Learning at Heriot-Watt University, with a primary objective of creating a tool for editing vocabularies in VDEX format. The project, which ended in January 2004, was based on the Public Draft (not the current Final Specification).
  • VDEX Java Binding — implementation neutral Java interface for VDEX, as well as providing a default implementation of that interface, and XML marshalling functionality.
  • imsvdex Python egg — API for VDEX XML-files. It is free software written in Python.
  • ATVocabularyManager — addon for Plone CMS uses VDEX as a possible format to define vocabularies.
  • collective.vdexvocabulary — implements IMS VDEX as standard Zope vocabulary which can also be used in Plone CMS, written in Python.
  • vdexcsv — offers a commandline converter from CSV to VDEX. It is written in Python.

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