Hello all, and sorry to be so late replying to this. I've been off line
a couple of days, and needed time to catch up with the debate in my
absence. For those of you who don't know me I'm the CETIS person
responsible for repository and metadata things, and I also have a
(minor) hand in admin for this list.
I think Scott was right about some of the differences between
repositories for research papers and repositories for teaching and
learning materials. I was involved in a discussion with some of the DRAW
project about this last year. You can see their thoughts on the
differences in section 3 of the paper at
http://www.worc.ac.uk/drawproject/documents/eunis2008erepsfinal.pdf
I'ld also like to stress some of the commonality, and the interesting
point is *not* that that those systems that work for research
publications will also work for teaching and learning materials (they
may in some cases, but not all). The real point of interest (I think)
is that the problems we face in managing teaching and learning materials
are those that people interested research materials will face as they
move on from published outputs. For example:
- We see a role for repositories in managing the creation of teaching
and learning materials. Scott mentions repository and CMS in this
context. Are there similar issues in virtual research environments?
- People see their teaching resources as private, for their own use, not
created for sharing except with trusted colleagues. Are there similar
issues in sharing research data?
- Teaching and learning resources are frequently compound objects, reuse
frequently implies disaggregation. Any similar issues in the use cases
for OAI-ORE?
There's also a lot that we who deal with teaching and learning materials
can learn from the institutional repository approach to sharing
research papers, including what is problematic--read Dorothea Salo.
On the original question of a list specifically for repositories of
teaching and learning materials.
Personally, I think that this list is the right place to discuss most
issue relating to repositories for teaching and learning materials. Yes,
some of the people on this list can give the impression that
repositories of research publications are the main theme for this list,
but I think that there are many people who are interested in all sorts
of repository, and I think there are benefits all round to making sure
that the needs of and lessons from repositories for educational use
don't get isolated from those of repositories in general. Lest we get
boring by focussing too much on our own obsession: the cetis-metadata
list for stuff that really is specific to repositories and metadata for
teaching and learning materials.
Lorna Campbell has summarized a similar discussion at
http://tinyurl.com/at2p7r
Phil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Repositories discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fred Riley
> Sent: 26 January 2009 12:13
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> Subject: List for learning object repositories?
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> 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
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