Assessing a learning object standard adherence

New technology has the potential to relate teachers and students to diverse learning resources, bringing up the paradigm of learning objects. A learning object is any digital or non-digital entity that can be used in education through computing. There are many standards defining how to search, evaluate, acquire, share, and use this kind of resource by instructors, students, and automated software processes. Aiming to explore the learning-object paradigm, it was modeled, built, and tested a learning-object database that is part of a collaborative environment, which supports distance learning of computer programming languages. One of the available standards was adopted, the learning object metadata standard - LOM. In order to build and manipulate the learning-object database, some strategies showed to be necessary and thus they were defined. This paper presents an adherence analysis of the LOM standard, considering the development of a learning object repository. The features about LOM utilization by automatic software processes are targeted and some detected problems have their proposed solutions considered and discussed.