Hi Fred
This was an issue that arose at a recent focus group for the
Repositories Support Group with many present emphasising the high
expectations of their institutions in terms of managing a wide range of
digital material.
The cultural and historical precedents and resulting technical focus
have perhaps conspired so that it is Open Access to research where the
inertia has become greatest in Institutional Repository development;
there is ongoing and useful debate around whether the issues facing OA
research archives and Learning Object repositories are so different that
they should not be managed in the same systems, however, I believe that
LO repositories can benefit from the culture of openness and sharing
exemplified by OA archives of research and there is certainly scope for
complementary technology as the zeitgeist shifts towards Open Access to
a wider range of educational resources. Might there also be potential
administrative benefits for this integrated approach?
At Leeds Met, for better or worse, we are using intraLibrary to develop
an integrated repository system and I while I have found this list along
with the CETIS-metadata list and the RSP to be invaluable resources; I
would certainly be interested in discussion focussed more explicitly on
LO/integrated repositories.
Kind regards
Nick
PS. Perhaps not directly relevant to your interest but there is a, so
far under utilised, user forum for intraLibrary users at
http://intralibraryuserforum.ning.com/
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Sent: 26 January 2009 12:13
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Subject: List for learning object repositories?
Hi
I've been on this list for some while now, and it's plain to me that
it's primarily, perhaps exclusively, for users and managers of
institutional repositories for theses, papers, articles, and scholarly
works in general. What rarely appears is any discussion of learning
object/materials repositories, which have very different requirements
and audiences. As part of my job I develop and administer such
repositories, and although some of the metadata issues involved are
covered by the cetis-metadata list there's nowhere AFAIK to get tips and
tricks on using, configuring and administering LO repositories such as
Intralibrary and Equella. Although such repositories are relative
latecomers compared with DSpace and similar, they are becoming
increasingly widespread in UKHE, and it would be useful to have a space
to discuss issues they raise.
So, after that preamble, what I'm asking is: is there a list aimed
specifically at learning object repositories? If not, as I suspect,
might there be sufficient interest to create one? Or would this be
detrimental to the 'repository community' as a whole, and should this
list be a bit more involved in LO repository issues?
Many others have noticed this, not least the indomitable Lorna Campbell
in her CETIS blog (http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/) where she has a couple
of posts about this (search for "learning object" as the URLs are way
too long to quote without being mangled by email).
Cheers
Fred
Fred Riley
Learning Technologist
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham
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