3.4.2 Harvest Road Hive 

Origin  

Australia 

Company 

HarvestRoad is a software developer with its headquarters in Perth, Western Australia, Australian branch 

Background 

offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra and overseas offices in Mexico City, London, Paris and Atlanta, 

USA as well as global partners/resellers in the USA, UK/Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.  

Established in 1996 and publicly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in September 1999 (ASX:HRD),  

HarvestRoad has developed a commercial off the shelf independent learning object repository system that 

enables the collection, management, re use and sharing of any type of digital content within the education 

and online training environments for the higher education, K 12, distance and vocational education, Defence, 

government and corporate eLearning /eTraining markets. 

Having commercialised its product in 2003, the company's client base extends to include Higher Education 

institutions, Distance Learning consortia, Government entities particularly Defence, Associations and 

educational service providers in the USA, Europe, UK, Asia, Australia and Latin America. 

HarvestRoad's global marketing strategy is focused on: 

Leveraging eLearning opportunities in collaboration with its partner network 

Being an active participant and adopting a leadership role at key industry events and forums, in 

particular those associated with industry Standards that effect eLearning enablement such as 

ADL/SCORM, CORDRA, S1000D and IMS 

Removing technology as an issue for eLearning globalisation 

Demonstrable Action supporting this strategy includes: 

HarvestRoad supports `open standards'.  We have developed support for the Open Archives Initiative 

(OAI PMH) as a data provider.  We also support the Open Service Interface Definitions (OSID) 

developed by the Open Knowledge Initiative Team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with whom 

we have been working on a joint research initiative to achieve multiple repository interoperability.   This 

capability was demonstrated at alt i lab 2005 in Sheffield in June 2005 where it was awarded Top 

Honours. 

HarvestRoad has provided its Learning Object Repository software for test bed research to the 

Academic ADL Co Lab in Madison, Wisconsin and the University of Hull e Services Integration Group 

where applied research is evaluating interoperability with Standards initiatives such as CORDRA and 

Open Source learning tools. 

HarvestRoad has established a joint research and development project with Boeing and the Australian 

Department of Education, Science and Technology to establish an Australian ADL Partner Co Lab and 

in particular to demonstrate interoperability with SCORM and S1000D specifications. This will be 

launched in Melbourne in October 2005 and will be a world first 

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