Dear All
Apologies for cross-posting.
The JORUM procurement process for the purchase, installation,
development and support of an online repository system for learning and
teaching materials has now been completed. The contract has been
awarded to Intrallect (http://www.intrallect.com/) for their
'intraLibrary Learning-Object Management System'. The contract was
awarded on 24th August 2004 following a European Union procurement
process that began in February 2004. Eight vendors were short listed to
tender from seventeen that submitted pre-qualification questionnaires.
JISC and the two national data centres were delighted to offer the
contract to Intrallect who tendered a very strong bid and were able to
demonstrate a robust and flexible standards-based repository system.
The JORUM team is looking forward to working with Intrallect to launch
the JORUM service for the whole of UK higher and further education from
August 2005. The JORUM service will form a key part of the JISC
Information Environment, and we are confident that the partnership with
Intrallect will form the basis of a major new initiative in online
learning and teaching. The JORUM service technical infrastructure,
support and outreach services will be fully supported by the two
national data centres, EDINA at the University of Edinburgh
(http://edina.ac.uk/) and MIMAS at the University of Manchester
(http://www.mimas.ac.uk/).
The set-up and launch project that will lead JORUM into service from
August 2005 has now started. Customisation of the system to meet the
user community's requirements will commence shortly, after which the
migration of existing JISC project output content, collated content from
other sources and content from early adopters will be submitted to the
system.
Further information regarding JORUM can be located at
http://www.jorum.ac.uk
Many thanks
On behalf of the JORUM team
Adrian Stevenson
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Adrian Stevenson
Software Developer
JORUM Project, MIMAS
Manchester Computing
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
Tel: +44(0)161 275 7044
Email: [log in to unmask]
MIMAS: http://www.mimas.ac.uk
JORUM: http://www.jorum.ac.uk
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