We harvested over 20,000 records and a subset of the attached files (75-90%) which proved a little trickier to grab from Jorum at the time. My colleague, Justin Bradley was using this dataset to run on a new EPrints 3.4 instance (which was announced in Dublin by Les Carr) and implementing faceted searches and some other non-publications specific features.

This hasn’t been turned into an EdShare instance as yet – so doesn’t have EdShare specific inline previews, ability for owners to edit live records, community side etc.. but that will all be easy to apply in due course. 

I can see we have nearly 400 records identified as being associated with Leeds, it’s therefore easy for us to provides features such as the ‘windows’ that Jorum used to do.  In fact we already do this sort of thing on lots of our repositories.

We’ll be happy to share this demo site wider in the new year.

Thanks Kelly – I’ve long been following EdShare and Humbox and saw you speak in Dublin.

Do you have a (live) archive of Jorum content then?? Much of it was just weblinks which I imagine you didn’t harvest (or do you have metadata?)

Nick

Thank you for sharing this Nick, great post.  I can still remember seeing the Jorum announcement pop up in my inbox, it was a huge surprise to say the least.

We were doing a lot of work at the time around upgrading the EdShare OER platform which is available from Southampton. 

The institutional OER site at Glasgow Caledonian University which Lorna references in her blog post is running on our latest version of EdShare and was launched at the end of 2015 and has resulted in a significant ripple effect for the established EdShare community.  Others using EdShare are now benefiting as a result of this work and we are updating a number of EdShare sites. Humbox being recently announced on the ALT-Members list.   This is a really active area for us.

We also played around with harvesting all the Jorum content into an EdShare site prior to the switched-off.  We are of course also keen to see how the Jisc Content & App store shapes up and what unique features this will offer compared to EdShare.

For anyone interested I did a webinar all about EdShare during the ALT Online Winter Conference earlier this month https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2016-12-07.0236.M.5D7A4E5A861B4E5A85DED75346BF9A.vcr&sid=7565

Thanks Lorna. I was talking with Antonio today (are you on the list Tony??) who is working with Jisc on an institutionally themed 'window' to the store...

Nick