Learning objects are increasingly seen as key to a technology-based revolution
in education and training, and even to an emerging global knowledge economy.
Word-wide efforts are underway to formulate standards that will enable
Learning Object (LO) reuse and exchange among multiple educational settings,
instructors, courses and institutions. The scope of this deliverable is to
appropriately define the notion of learning content available on corporate
networks or the Internet, as well as to provide the core information modeling
constructs of e-Learning applications.

We survey several e-Learning standards (e.g., delivered by European efforts
such as ARIADNE, American efforts such as IMS, ADL and AICC and international
efforts such as IEEE LTSC, ISO/IEC, JTC1/SC36, CEN/ISSS, DC) and we consider
the feasibility of expressing these standards using Semantic Web languages
such as W3C RDF/S.  We exhibit the interrelationships of existing standards in
order to support instructors, learners and teachers in locating and (re)using
digital educational material.  We conclude our deliverable with the most
important pedagogical limitations of existing standards, which are crucial for
deploying a fully-fledged Self e-Learning Network.