ePortfolios and Data Warehouses
Just a thought from looking at IMS LIP and some previous work that I did on data warehousing… it might be worth looking at the similarities between data warehouses and ePortfolios. Data warehouses are designed to store large amounts of information and have fast query response times. Perhaps the star schema used in data warehouses can also be applied to ePortfolios. Over time, especially when considering life long learning, an ePortfolio will store enormous amounts of information. The techniques developed for data warehouses could very well apply to ePortfolios for data mining and information retrieval.
