Abstract

Web has become an invaluable information resource with information explosion and searching a time consuming process. E-learning is day by day evolving with the web and has attained milestones like Mlearning and pervasive learning. LMS manage, document, track, covers and delivers educational resource termed as Learning Object (LO). LO's stored in Learning Object Repositories (LOR) with metadata or catalogue. LO's digital entities that act as an aid in edifying a subject in a syllabus. It contains information; objective and teaching methodology bind together. LOR's have high variability on its description and its existing searching modules are not enough to fulfilling the user information requirements. This paper discuss lacuna of LOR's and describes need of semantics web architecture in Learning object repositories through Semantic Learning Object Repository (SLOR).

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