Michael Emly wrote:
> So a very strong plea from me for keeping this list as a
> "broad church"
> where issues of general import can be discussed.
I agree completely. My initial post was prompted by my perception that
the vast majority of discussion on this list has been related to
scholarly materials repositories, which despite what Lesley maintains is
often of little relevance to use e-learning materials repository admins.
It's clear from the ensuing discussion, however, that this is a place
for issues relating to such 'binaries' repositories, and that more
detailed practical issues can be aired on cetis-metadata. With
repositories of all sorts becoming a Very Big Thing in UKHE and beyond,
it would be better to keep the 'repository community' together rather
than fragment it as one of my suggestions had it. I suppose that my
problem is that I'm a metadata amateur, with no background in
information science/librarianship, cataloguing, and scholarly materials,
and as such much of the discussion at a high abstraction level tends to
swim before my eyes. Which I'll just have to live with, no bother, as
long as I can post occasionally on practical repository issues that are
giving me grief ;-)
Sorry, I really hadn't intended my initial post to start off such a
kerfuffle and generate so much traffic - I was just flying a kite,
really :(
Cheers
Fred Riley
Learning Technologist
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham
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