Presentation given at D-e2009, JISC RSC West Midlands event, May 19, 2009. About Digital Repositories, their landscape in Higher and Further Education and more specifically about learning and teaching repositories. Download is PDF.

1. Digital
Repositories
for
Teaching
and
Learning
JISC
Regional
Support
Centre
West
Midlands
Discover-­‐e-­‐2009
Wednesday
19th
May
2009
UKOLN
is
supported
by:
Mahendra
Mahey
www.bath.ac.uk
Repositories
Research
Officer
Repositories
Research
Team
UKOLN
and
CETIS

2. My
background…
• Teaching,
management
and
learning
resources
• Lecturer
in
FE/HE
in
Psychology,
English
as
a
Foreign
Language,
CompuJng,
MulJmedia
in
the
UK
and
abroad
• Management
and
development
of
open,
distance
and
e-­‐
learning
materials,
learning
centres,
departments
• RSC
Advisor
for
Learning
and
Teaching
Resources
for
West
Midlands
and
Scotland
North
and
East
• Repositories
Research
Officer
for
UKOLN
as
part
of
the
Repositories
Research
Team
(UKOLN,
CETIS
and
JISC)

3. ObjecMves
• Explain
what
repositories
are
• Background
informaJon
and
issues
around
them
(technical
and
management)
• Learning
and
teaching
repositories
in
further
and
higher
educaJon
• Sharing
e-­‐learning
resources,
pracJces,
methods
and
tools
• Discussion
about
issues
surrounding
them

4. Some
convenMons
text
chat
…about
DIMDIM
• Technical
problem?
MaY
Gallon
available
to
help
–
use
text
chat,
or
phone
if
you
can
• Please
contribute
to
the
discussion
via
text,
when
you
see:
text
chat
• If
you
really
want
to
speak,
ask
MaY
to
hand
over
the
microphone
to
you
• Please
leave
quesJons
to
the
‘text
chat
‘
secJons
or
discussion
secJons,
if
possible
• However,
if
you
really
don’t
understand
something,
please
indicate
this
via
text
chat
and
I
will
stop
and
explain
• I
will
ask
‘please
stop’
,
try
to
summarise
and
move
on
to
the
next
secJon
• How
many
of
you
are
new
to
DIMDIM,
just
say
yes
or
no?

5. JISC
Vision
‘To
establish
a
network
of
digital
resources
and
services,
in
order
to
significantly
improve
content
use
and
cura<on
for
educa<on
and
research’
JISC
have
invested
a
lot
of
money
in
the
last
6
years
in
research
and
development
into
digital
repositories

6. What
is
a
repository?
Repositories
A
grain
silo
MM

7. What
is
a
repository?
•
‘a
collecJon
of
digital
objects’,
a
keep-­‐safe
•
Typically
containing
research
papers,
learning
materials,
data
•
In
FE
tends
to
be
learning
materials
/
objects
(e.g.
NLN
materials
and
home
grown
things)

8. Repositories
More
than
just
a
store
hYp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX3C80yWKbI

9. More
than
just
soRware/hardware…
“an
ins<tu<onal
repository
is
a
set
of
services
that
an
educa<onal
organisa<on
offers
to
the
members
of
its
community
for
the
management
and
dissemina<on
of
digital
materials
created
by
the
ins<tu<on
and
its
community
members.
It
is
most
essen<ally
an
organiza<onal
commitment
to
the
stewardship
of
these
digital
materials,
including
long-­‐term
preserva<on
where
appropriate,
as
well
as
organiza<on
and
access
or
distribu<on.
…..
An
ins<tu<onal
repository
is
not
simply
a
fixed
set
of
soJware
and
hardware.”
Clifford
Lynch.
'InsJtuJonal
repositories
:
essenJal
infrastructure
for
scholarship
in
the
digital
age'.
ARL
Bimonthly
Report,
February
2003
hYp://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html
MM

10. CharacterisMcs
of
a
repository
•
content
is
deposited
•
content
is
managed
as
well
as
the
metadata
•
minimum
services
e.g.
put,
get,
search,
access
control
•
should
be
sustainable
and
trusted,
well-­‐
supported
and
well-­‐managed
•
could
support
open
access
to
content
and
/
or
metadata
•
may
require
authenJcaJon
(many
learning
materials
repositories)

11. Technical
Requirements
• Repositories
built
on
open
source
standards
(Linux,
Apache,
MySql
and
PHP/PERL)
• Requires
specialist
skills
to
install
set,
e.g.
LAMP
(Linux,
Apache,
MySQL
and
PHP)
• Requires
relaJvely
high
processing
power
• Most
repositories
can
expose
metadata
for
harvesJng
if
not
the
actual
data
–
through
OAIPMH
(can
be
important
for
sharing)
–
Open
Archives
IniJaJve
Protocol
for
Metadata
HarvesJng
• May
be
built
up
of
a
number
of
service
components
invisible
to
user
MM

12. Open
Source
• Is
not
really
‘free’
• Requires
investment,
Jme,
money,
resources

13. The
many
flavours
of
repositories
• Content
– Eprints,
learning
materials,
corporate
records,
research
data,
mulJmedia
objects
• Coverage
– Departmental,
InsJtuJonal,
Regional,
NaJonal,
Personal
(web
site
/
blog)
• User
Group
/
Domain
/
Community
– Learners,
teachers,
administrators
• Access
Policies
– Open,
restricted
• DistribuJon
– Centralised,
federated
• FuncJon
/
Purpose
– Open
access,
subject
access,
publicaJon,
sharing
and
re-­‐use,
preservaJon
JA

14. Repository
Wheel
hYp://www.rubric.edu.au/extrafiles/wheel/index.html

15. Your
insMtuMon?
text
chat
• Please
use
the
text
chat
to
tell
me
if
your
insJtuJon
has:
– A
repository
–
if
so
what?
– Virtual
Learning
Environment?
What?
– Is
your
insJtuJon
thinking
of
gemng
one?
I will give you a couple of minutes and then say ‘Please stop’
I may ask further questions for clarification
At the end of the chat I will try and summarise and then move on

16. Management
• Usually
requires
at
least
one
person
to
manage
it
• Manage
content
and
metadata
• Where?
• Library,
e-­‐learning,
department?
• Typically
under-­‐resourced

17. Who
manages
it?
text
chat
text
chat
• Using
your
text
chat
window
• Please
tell
me
who
manages,
or
who
might
manage
a
repository
in
your
insJtuJon
• Why?

18. Drivers?
hYp://www.flickr.com/photos/yannisag/1835411334/
•
EffecJve
management
of
insJtuJonal
assets
• Open
access
–
impact,
visibility,
value
of
public
funding
•
Serials
crisis
–
insJtuJons
can’t
afford
all
subscripJons
•
Enhanced
communicaJon
amongst
peers
•
Linking
data
to
research
•
Learning
materials
sharing
•
VLEs
‘locking’
content
in
–
Learning
Object
repositories
‘free
objects’
from
course,
easier
to
reuse

19. Learning
and
teaching
drivers…
text
chat
• What
do
you
think?

20. Repositories
around
the
world
hYp://www.opendoar.org/
OpenDoar
Directory
of
Open
Access
Repositories
Quality-­‐assured
lis<ng
of
open
access
repositories
around
the
world
Includes
details
of
available
policies
(Very
useful
tool)
Register
your
repository!

21. Example
Repository
SoRware
pla[orms
Learning
Object
Repositories
• Intrallibrary
–
JORUM
based
on
this
(from
Intrallect
)£
• Harvest
Road
Hive£
• Core
–
developed
at
Coventry
City
College£(cheap)
• Moodle
and
MR
CUTE
Research
Repositories
• Eprints
• DSpace
• Fedora
• (most
popular
in
universiJes)
• Open
repository
–
commercial
venture
(www.openrepository.com)

22. A
quick
tour…

23. JORUM
naJonal
repository
for
learning
materials

25. Jorum
developments
Jorum
Community
Bay
• aims
to
support
knowledge
sharing
and
discussion
about
all
aspects
of
sharing,
reuse
and
repurposing
of
learning
and
teaching
resources
• using
Moodle
• in
development
• next
stage
will
be
to
populate
the
Community
Bay
-­‐
with
help
and
input
from
our
community

26. Language
Box
hYp://languagebox.eprints.org/

27. CoRe
–
Coventry
City
College
hYp://learning.covcollege.ac.uk/demo/

28. LORENET
hYp://www.lorenet.nl/nl/page/luzi/show?showcase=1

29. Harvest
Road
(GunM
Labs)
hYp://www.giunJlabs.com/HarvestRoad_Hive/index.php?info.php?vvu=12&

30. MR
CUTE
and
Moodle
• An
opJonal
add-­‐on
repository
for
Moodle
• A
search
system
for
finding
ready
made
learning
materials
both
inside
and
outside
an
insJtuJon
and
embedding
them
in
Moodle
courses
• A
way
of
storing
and
sharing
materials
outside
specific
courses
to
– minimise
server
space
usage
– encourage
sharing
– enable
site
wide
use
of
materials
without
further
upload
– allow
non
technical
teachers
to
create
packages

35. Gebng
access
to
MR
CUTE2
• MrCute
2
hYp://www.mrcute.co.uk
or
hYp://www.learningobjecJvity.com/mrcute
• Enrolment
key
for
test
area:
cuJe
• No
key
required
to
download,
but
you
must
create
an
account

36. Flickr
• Content:
Images
• Coverage:
InternaJonal;
community-­‐based;
personal
• FuncJon:
sharing
and
re-­‐use
• Community
/
Domain:
Anyone
/
Public
• Centralised
• Part
open
access,
part
access
controlled
hdp://www.flickr.com/
• Flickr
API
– Allows
innovaJve
re-­‐use
of
Flickr
data,
e.g.
hdp://metaatem.net/words/
JA

37. Show
us
yours…
text
chat
• If
you
have
a
repository
or
VLE,
paste
the
link
into
the
chat
window
for
everyone
to
see
• Do
you
use
any
cool
tools
to
share?

38. Benefits
Discussion
text
chat
text
chat
• What
benefits
do
you
see
for
your
insJtuJon?

39. Legal
• Intellectual
Property
Rights
(IPR)
– Copyright
– Other:
database
rights,
moral
rights,
performers’
rights,
trademarks,
patents
• Copyright
– Who
owns?
Author,
InsJtuJon
– Publisher
agreements
-­‐
Sherpa
Romeo
(
hYp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php)
– Moral
rights
are
also
important
–
paternity
and
integrity
rights
• InsJtuJon
as
publisher
– Securing
the
right
to
publish,
store,
preserve
– Plagiarism/copyright
infringement,
other
infringements
– DefamaJon,
inaccurate
informaJon,
confidenJality,
libel
– Freedom
of
InformaJon
and
Data
ProtecJon
• Risk
Assessment
• Licences
/
policies
– deposit
AND
end-­‐user
• CreaJve
Commons
licenses
seem
to
popular
JA

40. Trust
DR
project
• Produced
some
excellent
resources
for
insJtuJons
in
this
area
• hYp://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/

41. Discussion
text
chat
text
chat
• Any
IPR
issues
you
can
see
emerging
or
have
emerged?

42. Policy
• Policies
are
important
when
implemenJng
any
service
• Policies
can
cover;
legal
issues,
who
deposits,
who
adds
metadata,
long
term
preservaJon,
etc
• One
current
concern
is
whether
it
is
good
to
mandate
deposit
into
the
repository
or
not
and
whether
this
is
a
good
thing
• It’s
one
thing
having
a
policy,
it’s
another
thing
complying
to
it
though!
• Open
Doar
policy
tool
• hYp://www.opendoar.org/tools/policytool.php
MM

43. Key
issues
for
insMtuMons
text
chat
• So
what
are
your
key
issues?

44. ImplementaMon
Issues
text
chat
• Are
there
any
specific
issues
that
you
would
like
menJon?

45. Wrap
up

46. Thanks
• m.mahey@ukoln.ac.uk