Here is a description of the Rights and Rewards in Blended Institutional
Repositories project for the Warwick meeting:
The project is researching into 'blended' repositories of teaching material
and research output. With a high focus on motivational aspects of depositing
to repositories, we undertook a national survey to discover what motivates
academics to contribute to repositories and what rights they would like to
retain in their materials. We focused on previous, present and future use of
repositories in terms of these rights and rewards.
Our most recent activity is investigating the different digital lifecycles
for the different types of files and formats that are most commonly used as
well as the most appropriate metadata for each of these types.
We are also executing a workflow mapping exercise which aims to identify the
processes involved with creating and sharing teaching material and research
output. We also aim to highlight the support in order for a blended research
and teaching materials repository to be sustainable.
In future work, the Rights and Rewards Project aims to;
· Develop a rights solution and a rewards scheme
· Develop and implement best practice guidelines for both reward
schemes and rights solutions within existing pilot repository architectures
· Recommend future technical developments within current
repository architectures and associated standards to support rights and
rewards fully
· Recommend best practice to the HE and FE community form a model
of collaboration between the project partners.
Questions:
1.. What would make a good rewards mechanism and rights solution?
2.. What stakeholders are involved in the creation and sharing of teaching
material?
3.. Which types of files and formats are most commonly used when creating
teaching material?
4.. Which is the most appropriate metadata for each file?
5.. What are the differences between research output and teaching material
repositories and whether the two types can be 'blended'?
6.. What support is needed to successfully implement, maintain and sustain
a repository of teaching materials?
7.. What best practice can be recommended to others in HE/FE who may be
setting up these kinds of repositories?
For further information, please visit the project website :
http://rightsandrewards.lboro.ac.uk/
Kind regards
Steve Loddington
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Steve Loddington
Research Assistant
Rights and Rewards in Blended Institutional Repositories Project
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough
LEICS, LE11 3TU
ENGLAND
Tel: (01509) 63 5727
Project website: http://rightsandrewards.lboro.ac.uk/
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