If you want an OAI-PMH compliant repository for your teaching and learning content have you considered intraLibrary from Intrallect. I know it isn't open source but it is based entirely on open standards so, not only does it support OAI-PMH, but it also supports LOM, IMS Content Packaging, SCORM (1.2 and 2004), digital rights management using ODRL, search and retrieve using SRW, and multiple taxonomies using ZTHES. IntraLibrary is one of the most configurable and flexible repositories around, supporting configurable community licencing models, submission workflows and collections with access control.
This isn't meant to be an advertisement but rather to point out that a lot of things people on this list ask for are available but not necessarily in open source products. It might be interesting to hear some discussion of which is more important open source or open standards?
Charles Duncan
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Melanie Bates wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Has anyone had experience of the open source 'Railroad Repository' (
> http://infrae.com/products/railroad ) software and associated 'Plone' (
> http://plone.org ) CMS, of which educommons
> (http://plone.org/products/educommons) is an Add-on? We have dSpace as
> our Institutional Repository and would ideally like to use an OAI-PMH
> compatible repository for our teaching and learning content too. The
> 'Educommons', which is the system that MIT use for their Open Courseware
> Initiative, seems to be a good delivery platform but does anyone have
> any experience of using it with a repository back end? Railroad seems
> to tick all the boxes, but it's the first time I've come across it?
>
> Any experience people have of any of these things would be great to know
> about.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Melanie
>
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> Melanie Bates
> Learning Technology Co-ordinator
> engCETL
> Loughborough University
> --Rights and Rewards project
> http://rightsandrewards.lboro.ac.uk
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