Thanks for forwarding this Rachel, I'm still playing catch up following
alti-lab!
The SIG may also be interested in the list of Issues, Actions and Pain
Points that the Content Topical Area Session identified during the
conference, I've attached these below. Please forward all comments to
the list.
All the best
Lorna
On 5 Aug 2004, at 16:09, Rachel Heery wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Andy Powell wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes, I was wondering along similar lines... and about, dare I say it,
>> what
>> the definition of a repository is!?!
>
> For those who have not come across it, Lorna presented a very useful
> white
> paper (authored with Jon Mason and Kerry Blinco) at the alt-i-lab 2004
> meeting which gives an overview of repository management and
> implementation, and as part of this discusses some of the various
> types of
> repository.
>
> see http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/Altilab04-repositories.pdf
>
> At the meeting there was various mentions of need for a typology of
> repositories, and more fundamentally an understanding of the 'ecology'
> of
> reositories i.e. how they relate to each other.
>
> A significant step would be to investigate what services are common
> across various types of repository, which are distinct.
>
> Rachel
>
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> European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004),
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Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS)
Centre for Academic Practice, University of Strathclyde
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