relationship identifiers should be locally unique strings. 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. See also IMS Global Learning object metadata References Marc van Coillie Using IMS VDEX for the EDS AP – EIfEL Antonio Sarasa, Jose Manuel Canabal, Juan Carlos Sacristan, Raquel Jimenez Using IMS VDEX in Agrega External links IMS VDEX — official resources by IMS global What is IMS VDEX — JISC CETIS CETIS Metadata and Digital Repository Special Interest Group (SIG) — mailing list for those in UK Higher and Further Education interested in creating, storing and serving educational metadata. Data management Educational technology standards Knowledge representation Library science Metadata Technical communication