Searcher etc.) if required 

Delegated administration responsibility and extensive permission sets 

User definable item types to set business rules and any level of control to enforce business processes 

User definable mime types to support custom file formats 

Distributable system architecture 

Hot Backup mode for 24x7 operation 

Self managing content and user session cache control 

Detailed transaction and event logging for audit trail and reporting 

Internationalised for easy translation and product interface is currently available in English and Spanish; 

locale specific support for content indexing, stemming and stop word processing 

Integration  

Java APIs for programmatic integration and template tag language for web developers 

Executable server side agents to obtain data from virtually any external source 

Choice of rich functionality interface or "Lite" search and browse interfaces for slow network links 

Configurable user interface pack for integration into other applications or to develop custom interfaces 

to the repository. 

Export of learning objects to 3rd party Learning Management Systems including Open Source LMSs 

such as Moodle and Sakai. (See Appendix M for more detail on Content Mediation) 

Choice of generic cgi or Windows IIS ISAPI module to process http requests for Hive 

Support for Open Archives Initiative (OAI PMH) as a data provider 

Support for Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) Open Service Interface Definitions (See Appendix B for 

more detail) 

Clients 

HarvestRoad Hive  is being used by Mexico s Latin American Institute of Educational Communication 

(ILCE), which was originally established as a United Nations initiative responsible for developing 

international programs for education throughout Latin America. The ILCE first purchased HarvestRoad Hive  

to manage the learning objects that are to be delivered up to 1.2 million teachers across Mexico and also act 

as an Education Service Provider, providing hosted digital repository facilities and management for 12 

member states including Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.  

Ministry of Education, New Zealand   The Correspondence School of New Zealand under the umbrella of 

the MOE selected HarvestRoad Hive  as their digital repository for learning objects associated with its 

20,000 students  long distance learning requirements. 

Florida Distance Learning Consortium, USA   consists of twenty eight community colleges, eleven 

universities and SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) accredited private institutions.  The 

Consortium is responsible for providing distance learning to students taking more than 444,000 courses 

through a blend of online and other technologies.  The post secondary educational system serves more than 

a million online and on campus students. 

Cranfield University in the United Kingdom is also using HarvestRoad Hive  to manage the content they 

develop for the UK Defence Academy. In addition, HarvestRoad Hive  is to be used to manage not just 

learning objects, but a range of business and education specific documents in many projects across the 

campus and across the Ministry of Defence, such as a Doctrine Repository and an Image Library Repository. 

HarvestRoad Hive  is also being used in the Northern  Territory Education & Training Department (NT 

DEET) to manage learning objects obtained from The Learning Federation, further illustrating the fact that 

HarvestRoad Hive  is designed to meet the functional and implementation demands of national and state 

based curriculum content management requirements. NT DEET is responsible for delivering education and 

training to a geographically dispersed and multi lingual community. 

Emerge eLearning Environment, The Netherlands, is a consortium of seven Universities across Holland 

which have established HarvestRoad Hive  as their institutional repository. HarvestRoad Hive  is also 

being used in this environment to support the SURF LOREnet (Learning Object Repository) Project to 

establish a national repository solution for all educational institutions across Holland.  The project 

incorporates the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol.  

CPA Australia   HarvestRoad Hive  was chosen by the Association for Certified Practicing Accountants 

(CPA) Australia for its eLearning System which delivers a blend of flexible online courses to CPA Australia's 

membership enabling study to be undertaken anywhere, anytime to suit the member's individual 

circumstances.  It is Australia's largest professional organisation with a membership totaling more than 

102,000, with approximately 20,000 members based outside Australia and is the world's sixth largest 

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