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Oops, that should have been Utah State as developers of Educommons. J On 10 Jun 2006, at 12:58, John Norman wrote: > Unless things have changed recently, MIT Open CourseWare is not > using Educommons. Rather, Educommons was created by Ohio State (?) > to offer a service comparable to MIT OCW. I believe MIT OCW is > custom code based on MS Content Management Server. > > I also believe some places have extended DSpace metadata to include > Learning Object Metadata, at which point it becomes a learning > object repository, but without all of the features of Intralibrary > or all of the published web interface features of Educommons and > MIT OCW. > > Finally, our very limited experience with Plone is that it may not > scale well beyond 2,000 or so users. I hope someone will correct me > if I have that wrong. > > John > > On 9 Jun 2006, at 15:50, 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 >> >> -- >> Melanie Bates >> Learning Technology Co-ordinator >> engCETL >> Loughborough University >> -- >> Rights and Rewards project >> http://rightsandrewards.lboro.ac.uk