Abstract

SCAM is an open-source content archive management system, developed under the supervision of the KMR group, in cooperation with the Swedish Agency for School Improvement (Myndigheten för Skolutveckling) and Uppsala Learning Lab. It can be used as a web-based portfolio system or as an interoperable content archive.

High emphasize on portability and flexibility has been made, which in turn relies on standardization of both design and implementation. Efforts on this subject have been one of main challenges during the development. Standards involve metadata vocabularies, content packaging, authentication of users and access control, system interfaces, etc.

SCAM is entirely implemented in Java using the J2EE architecture as its backbone and use RDF as the metadata representation format. Standards include for example Dublin Core and IEEE LOM for metadata, and IMS Content Packaging for structural information.