The OiW committee selected eight software systems for evaluation, from organisations including Apple, the University of Washington, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, as well as Giunti Labs.

These products addressed the key issues of shareable and clear identity management, easy and personal course-information management, platform-independent learning, and convenient and ubiquitous access to online content.

The Giunti Labs' NovaRes demonstrator impressed the OiW judges and attendees alike with its use of interoperability specifications to enhance learning by blending standards-based mobile learning in the real world with learning experiences in virtual worlds.

Imagine being able to place images from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on the walls of a virtual walk-through gallery. Giunti Labs didn't just imagine such a scenario: the company delivered it using learn eXact's LCMS technologies and OKI Osids-based extensions.

According to Giunti Labs' Thieringer, in the authoring and creation process, NovaRes can demonstrate interoperability with:

• Back-end pre-existing repositories and federations of learning assets repositories such as Merlot, Ariadne, Lornet, Dspace, and LionShare
• Intermediate content-brokerage solutions such as the Calstate Digital marketplace
• Front-end delivery solutions such as Moodle™, Sakai™, Blackboard™, and WebCT

The demonstration at OiW focused on a specific use of the NovaRes Architecture named NovaArs - The New Face of Art - in art education scenarios.