> Pat, some of your Qs are ambiguous, IMO, but here goes anyway:

Sometimes, on a discussion list, a little ambiguity goes a long way.

>
>> Here are some starters for ten
>>
>> 1) Do you still need a repository - can you build what you need around
>> the LR and some files on a website?
>
> The word "repository" is just sooooooooo noughties, my dear. The concept of repository is still alive in the area of 'scholarly works'
> where it makes sense as papers, theses and datasets are stored on one or more particular servers and need to be downloaded for
> analysis

Well yes, but if something else is providing you with a faster
architecture, then file on website is the only prerequisite. You don't
need a repository service any more if there is a bigger central
service to do it for you..


>> 2) Where can you think of services providing links to elearning
>> content being deployed? What tools would you like?
>
> Locally and online. Tools: aggregators with knobs on. That is, a teacher or student being able to collate online and local resources
> into a meaningful whole, with pedagogical 'glue'. OER Glue is a good starter in this respect.

The LR is an aggregator, not sure as to it's status in terms of
beknobbledness (why does my spell checker think that's not a word,
it's perfectly cromulant).

The LR has a slicing function -
http://lrdev04.learningregistry.org/slices?any_tags=nursing - to bring
back the document IDs matching a word. This then needs a json decode
(php function) and then one more request to get links back for each ID
returned.

>> 4) How would you like to add your resources to the learning registry?
>
> Easily! Personally I'd want the registry to harvest feeds that I provide - I'm sick of redepositing the same packages in multiple
> repositories. Write once, read many times.

Am going to reply to this in another email