Intrallect and intraLibrary

Charles DuncanC.Duncan@intrallect.com

Background

• Intrallect is a leading provider of digital repository software

• Established in 2000 as spin-out from the University of Edinburgh

• intraLibrary repository launched 2002• Repositories used by schools, universities

colleges and professional consortia• Actively involved in advancing open

standards

People

• Martin Morrey (Product Director)– Co-chair of IMS LODE (with David Massart)

– Participant and first implementer SWORD

• Sarah Currier (Product Manager)– Co-Chair of Education Community (Dublin Core)

• Peter Douglas (Operations Director)– Expert on Community Dimensions of repositories

• Charles Duncan (CEO)– JISC Rights Management consultant

Products and services

• intraLibrary– Digital object repository software

• intraLibrary Connect– Web services suite for intraLibrary

• intraLibrary Host– Hosting service for repositories

• Consultancy• Data migration• Research

Interoperability

• Standards– Metadata

• IEEE LOM• Dublin Core bibliographic citations• ODRL rights management• z39.87 image metadata• XCRI course information data• Extensions: star ratings, user tags

– Packaging• IMS 1.3• SCORM 1.2 and 2004

intraLibrary Connect

Connectivity

• inform– RSS, Yahoo pipes

• discover– SRU/SRW, OpenSearch, SRU Client (open source)– VLE integration: Blackboard Vista, Moodle, It’s

Learning (DigLib)

• gather– OAI-PMH (DC, LOM, ODRL)

• store– SWORD, Atom Publishing Protocol

Sample Customers

• National repositories

• Subject repositories

• Local repositories

Why choose a commercial provider?• Concentrate on roll-out and

community building

• Ignore emerging standards – let Intrallect handle technical developments

• Save time and effort

• Influence future development

intraLibrary - some features

• Metadata editor

• Metadata templates (on import and export)

• Metadata application profile editor

• Workflows

• Collections

• Rights management

• Taxonomy editor

• URLs for all objects (including items in content packages)

• Thank you• Any questions• C.Duncan@intrallect.com