An audience with:Repository Ecology in ActionIntraLibrary Connect

Sarah CurrierProduct ManagerIntrallect Ltds.currier@intrallect.comhttp://www.intrallect.com

In the beginning…

eLearning

Institution VLE

Web sites

Other VLEs

Now: fully-functioned…

Research outputs

Scanned

eLearning

ePrints Images Private

Institution VLE

RAE evaluation

Web sites CLA reporting requirements

“Collection”Portal

Other VLEsWikis, BlogsOpen accessportals

In a world of choices…

Research outputs

Scanned

eLearning

ePrints Images Private

Institution VLE

RAE evaluation

Web sites CLA reporting requirements

“Collection”Portal

Other VLEsWikis, BlogsOpen accessportals

Research outputs

Scanned Scanned

eLearning

ePrints Images Private

Institution VLEInstitution VLE

RAE evaluation

RAE evaluation

Web sitesWeb sites CLA reporting requirementsCLA reporting requirements

“Collection”Portal

“Collection”Portal

Other VLEsOther VLEsWikis, BlogsWikis, BlogsOpen accessportals

Open accessportals

intraLibrary Connect

Technical aspects

• inform– RSS, Yahoo pipes, Podcasting

• discover– SRU/SRW, OpenSearch

• gather– OAI-PMH (DC, LOM, ODRL)

• store– SWORD (Atom Publishing Protocol)

Everyday tools

• inform– Browsers, News Readers, Email, iTunes

• discover– Browsers, Portals, VLEs

• gather– Aggregators, Portals, Catalogues

• store– Desktop, File system

discover – using open source SRU client

discover – using open source SRU client

discover – SRU-based OpenSearch Browser search

discover – SRU client enables open repository

IRISS Learning Exchange Open Search

• IRISS achieved open licence status for enough of their teaching and learning resources to offer an open web interface to their repository

• Built on our open source SRU client; Open Search is now open sourced too (see Ian Watson’s soapbox presentation)

• Jorum are looking at building on this approach for JorumOpen

• Various universities are using this to enable their institutional repositories to manage behind-the-wall learning resources and openly available research outputs.

• Let’s have a look: http://www.iriss.ac.uk/openlx/

discover - VLEs

discover - VLEs

Support for SRU allows institutions to embed their repository in their VLE

• Keele University are currently implementing the Blackboard Enterprise (ex-WebCT) intraLibrary PowerLink

• They will be rolling out to academics in time for the next semester

• They are using intraLibrary to manage their digitised copyright materials collection, to produce reports for the Copyright Licensing Authority, and to open these resources to academics for embedding directly into Blackboard without having to log into the repository.

• Oxford Brookes and several others are also looking at using the PowerLink to allow embedding of research papers and LOs in courses.

• Coming soon: Moodle and Blackboard Building Block integration.

gather - PerX

gather - PerX continued…

store – SWORD Desktop Deposit Tool

store – SWORD Desktop Deposit Tool

intraLibrary 3.0 includes support for the new

SWORD Deposit specification

• We have a tool that allows drag-and-drop desktop deposit

• A number of universities are implementing this soon as an easy way for academics to deposit their research outputs.

Let’s have a look … [live demo]

inform - Live Bookmarks

inform – news reader

inform - iTunes

Conclusions

• Digital Repositories– integrate with your existing tools– offer reliable single source access– are easy to search

(metadata/classification) – encourage mashups, etc.

• Open standards– support new uses with existing tools– put power in the hands of the user – are the basis for open access