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Digital Repositories for Teaching and Learning
JISC Regional Support Centre West MidlandsDiscover-e-2009Wednesday 19th May 2009
www.bath.ac.uk
UKOLN is supported by:
Mahendra MaheyRepositories Research OfficerRepositories Research TeamUKOLN and CETIS
My background…
• Teaching, management and learning resources• Lecturer in FE/HE in Psychology, English as a Foreign
Language, Computing, Multimedia in the UK and abroad• Management and development of open, distance and e-
learning materials, learning centres, departments• RSC Advisor for Learning and Teaching Resources for West
Midlands and Scotland North and East• Repositories Research Officer for UKOLN as part of the
Repositories Research Team (UKOLN, CETIS and JISC)
Objectives
• Explain what repositories are• Background information and issues around
them (technical and management)• Learning and teaching repositories in further
and higher education• Sharing e-learning resources, practices,
methods and tools• Discussion about issues surrounding them
Some conventions…about DIMDIM
• Technical problem? Matt Gallon available to help – use text chat, or phone if you can
• Please contribute to the discussion via text, when you see:• If you really want to speak, ask Matt to hand over the microphone
to you• Please leave questions to the ‘text chat ‘ sections or discussion
sections, if possible• However, if you really don’t understand something, please indicate
this via text chat and I will stop and explain• I will ask ‘please stop’ , try to summarise and move on to the next
section• How many of you are new to DIMDIM, just say yes or no?
text chat
text chat
JISC Vision‘To establish a network of digital resources and services, in order to significantly improve content use and curation for education and research’
JISC have invested a lot of money in the last 6 years in research and development into digital repositories
Repositories
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What is a repository?
A grain silo
What is a repository?
• ‘a collection of digital objects’, a keep-safe• Typically containing research papers, learning materials, data• In FE tends to be learning materials /objects (e.g. NLN materials and home grown things)
RepositoriesMore than just a store
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX3C80yWKbI
More than just software/hardware…
“an institutional repository is a set of services that an educational organisation offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution. ….. An institutional repository is not simply a fixed set of software and hardware.”
Clifford Lynch. 'Institutional repositories : essential infrastructure for scholarship in the digital age'. ARL Bimonthly Report, February 2003
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html
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Characteristics of a repository• content is deposited• content is managed as well as the metadata• minimum services e.g. put, get, search, access control• should be sustainable and trusted, well-supported and well-managed• could support open access to content and / or metadata• may require authentication (many learning materials repositories)
Technical Requirements• Repositories built on open source standards
(Linux, Apache, MySql and PHP/PERL)• Requires specialist skills to install set, e.g. LAMP
(Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP)• Requires relatively high processing power• Most repositories can expose metadata for
harvesting if not the actual data – through OAIPMH (can be important for sharing) – Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
• May be built up of a number of service components invisible to user
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Open Source
• Is not really ‘free’• Requires investment, time, money, resources
The many flavours of repositories• Content
– Eprints, learning materials, corporate records, research data, multimedia objects
• Coverage– Departmental, Institutional, Regional, National, Personal (web site / blog)
• User Group / Domain / Community– Learners, teachers, administrators
• Access Policies– Open, restricted
• Distribution– Centralised, federated
• Function / Purpose– Open access, subject access, publication, sharing and re-use, preservation
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http://www.rubric.edu.au/extrafiles/wheel/index.html
Repository Wheel
Your institution?
• Please use the text chat to tell me if your institution has:– A repository – if so what?– Virtual Learning Environment? What?– Is your institution thinking of getting one?
text chat
I will give you a couple of minutes and then say ‘Please stop’I may ask further questions for clarificationAt the end of the chat I will try and summarise and then move on
Management
• Usually requires at least one person to manage it
• Manage content and metadata• Where?• Library, e-learning, department?• Typically under-resourced
Who manages it?
• Using your text chat window• Please tell me who manages, or who
might manage a repository in your institution
• Why?
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Drivers?
• Effective management of institutional assets•Open access – impact, visibility, value of public funding• Serials crisis – institutions can’t afford all subscriptions• Enhanced communication amongst peers• Linking data to research• Learning materials sharing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yannisag/1835411334/
• VLEs ‘locking’ content in – Learning Object repositories ‘free objects’ from course, easier to reuse
Learning and teaching drivers… text chat
•What do you think?
http://www.opendoar.org/
OpenDoar
Directory of Open Access Repositories
Quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world
Includes details of available policies
(Very useful tool)
Register your repository!
Repositories around the world
Example Repository Software platforms
Learning Object Repositories• Intrallibrary – JORUM based on this (from Intrallect )£• Harvest Road Hive£• Core – developed at Coventry City College£(cheap)• Moodle and MR CUTEResearch Repositories• Eprints• DSpace• Fedora• (most popular in universities)• Open repository – commercial venture (www.openrepository.com)
A quick tour…
JORUM national repository for learning materials
Jorum developments
Jorum Community Bay• aims to support knowledge sharing and
discussion about all aspects of sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching resources
• using Moodle• in development• next stage will be to populate the Community
Bay - with help and input from our community
Language Box
http://languagebox.eprints.org/
CoRe – Coventry City College
http://learning.covcollege.ac.uk/demo/
LORENET
http://www.lorenet.nl/nl/page/luzi/show?showcase=1
Harvest Road (Gunti Labs)
http://www.giuntilabs.com/HarvestRoad_Hive/index.php?info.php?vvu=12&
MR CUTE and Moodle
• An optional add-on repository for Moodle• A search system for finding ready made learning
materials both inside and outside an institution and embedding them in Moodle courses
• A way of storing and sharing materials outside specific courses to – minimise server space usage– encourage sharing– enable site wide use of materials without further upload– allow non technical teachers to create packages
Getting access to MR CUTE2
• MrCute 2http://www.mrcute.co.uk orhttp://www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute
• Enrolment key for test area: cutie
• No key required to download, but you must create an account
Flickr• Content: Images• Coverage: International; community-based; personal• Function: sharing and re-use• Community / Domain: Anyone / Public• Centralised• Part open access, part access controlled
http://www.flickr.com/• Flickr API
– Allows innovative re-use of Flickr data, e.g. http://metaatem.net/words/
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Show us yours…
• If you have a repository or VLE, paste the link into the chat window for everyone to see
• Do you use any cool tools to share?
text chat
Benefits Discussion
• What benefits do you see for your institution?
text chat text chat
Legal• Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
– Copyright– Other: database rights, moral rights, performers’ rights, trademarks, patents
• Copyright– Who owns? Author, Institution– Publisher agreements - Sherpa Romeo (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php)– Moral rights are also important – paternity and integrity rights
• Institution as publisher– Securing the right to publish, store, preserve– Plagiarism/copyright infringement, other infringements– Defamation, inaccurate information, confidentiality, libel– Freedom of Information and Data Protection
• Risk Assessment• Licences / policies
– deposit AND end-user• Creative Commons licenses seem to popular
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Trust DR project
• Produced some excellent resources for institutions in this area
• http://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/
Discussion
• Any IPR issues you can see emerging or have emerged?
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Policy
• Policies are important when implementing any service• Policies can cover; legal issues, who deposits, who adds
metadata, long term preservation, etc• One current concern is whether it is good to mandate
deposit into the repository or not and whether this is a good thing
• It’s one thing having a policy, it’s another thing complying to it though!
• Open Doar policy tool• http://www.opendoar.org/tools/policytool.php
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Key issues for institutions
• So what are your key issues?
text chat
Implementation Issues
• Are there any specific issues that you would like mention?
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Wrap up
Thanks
• m.mahey@ukoln.ac.uk