Web Services for Learning Object Repositories

Via SlideShare I discovered Web Services and Semantic Web for the Next Generation of Learning Repositories by Stephen Downes.  I was attracted to it because it uses one of the NRC presentation templates.  (UPDATE 2006-12-21: The presentation is from 2002, it discusses the creation of eduSource Canada.  I don't know if there has been any work on it recently, after the project finished in 2004. http://www.edusource.ca/ )

Considering that Stephen is working on topics of interest to my group, and the fact that we're in the same organization, we really should probably meet and talk sometime.

Does everyone else have the same experience of only finding out what your organization is doing from surfing the web, not from internal communications?