Phil’s JISC CETIS blog» Blog Archive » Feeding a repository. There has been some discussion recently about mechanisms for remote or bulk deposit in repositories and similar services. David Flanders ran a very thought provoking and lively show and tell meeting a couple of weeks ago looking at deposit. In part this is familiar territory; looking at and tweaking the work that the creators of the SWORD profile have done based on APP; or looking again at webDav.
But there is also a newly emerging approach of using RSS or Atom feeds to populate repositories, a sort of feed-deposit. Coincidentally we also received a query at CETIS from a repository which is looking to collect outputs of the UKOER programme asking for help in firming-up the requirements for bulk or remote deposit, and asking how RSS possibly fitted into this. So what is this feed-deposit idea. The trouble is, though, that once you get down to details there are several problems and several different ways of overcoming them. There are several ways of dealling with that. Digital libraries in the classroom programme. Spoken Word Services » Welcome to Spoken Word Services. DART. Dialog Plus. Didet : Digital Libraries for Global Distributed Innovative Design Education and Teamwork. JISC CETIS - Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards. Usability of digital libraries.
Phil’s JISC CETIS blog» Blog Archive » Repository standards. Tore Hoel tweeted: The most successful repository initiatives do not engage with LT standards EDRENE report concludes #icoper pointing me to what looks like a very interesting report which also concludes Important needs expressed by content users include:Minimize number of repositories necessary to access…Of these, the first bullet point clearly relates to interoperability of repositories, and indicates the importance of focusing on repository federations, including metadata harvesting and providing central indexes for searching for educational content.
Coincidentally I had just finished an email replying to someone who asked about repository aggregation in the context of Open Educational Resources because she is “Trying to get colleagues here to engage with the culture of sharing learning content. Some of them are aware that there are open educational learning resources out there but they don’t want to visit and search each repository.” E-Learning Repository Systems Research Watch. Repositories and the Open Web. From CETISwiki Please use the tag "CETISROW" if writing about this event. Date 19 April 2010, About The theme of this meeting was how repositories fit in with the web, and how do web 2.0 / social sharing sites compare to repositories when used for the management and dissemination of learning materials. We discussed experiences of projects that have used social sharing sites to disseminate resources and the benefits of doing so.
The aims of the meeting were to: discuss the issues outlined above; identify areas where further support or investigation are required; help develop CETIS policy in this area; identify tangible outputs that will be of benefit to the community. The meeting picked up on issues raised by the UKOER programme and other initiatives which have used repositories to place materials on the open web or used web sites and tools such as Flickr, YouTube, iTunesU, WordPress to fulfill the role normally played by repository software. Position papers and presentations. Phil’s JISC CETIS blog» Blog Archive » About metadata. Trying to distinguish between metadata and resource description… In our online support session for the UKOER programme, some of which John has summarized (1 2 3), instead of giving participants a definition of what metadata is we gave them a choice and asked them to vote on what they understood the word to mean. The options were: A: data about data B: structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource.
C: pretty much any information about anything. D: any of the above. You might recognise option A as the etymological definition, B as the NISO’s definition, found in Understanding Metadata [pdf]. Our sample of participants in the online session wasn’t scientifically chosen. In retrospect it’s not surprising that no one voted for C, since the people in our audience who recognise that as a meaning are likely to have come across A and B as well.
Guidelines for setting up or evaluating LO repositories - CD LOR. Repositories and Preservation Programme. The programme is a £14m investment in Higher Education repository and digital content infrastructure. It will fund initiatives to develop the Information Environment supporting digital repositories and preservation, including cross-searching facilities across repositories; funding for institutions to develop a critical mass of content, preservation solutions and advice for the development of repositories. Vision To establish a network of digital resources and services to significantly improve content use and curationThe programme builds on the existing JISC programmes, in particular the Digital Repository programme1 and the Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions2 Programme overview Activities Digital repositories projects to further develop repositories for universities and colleges Digital preservation taking forward the development of a distributed environment for digital preservation, in which services, roles and responsibilities are scoped and defined.