Supporting further and higher education

Digital Repositories

Susan Eales

JISC Executive

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Agenda

• Current JISC-funded activity• issues• the new JISC repositories programme• Further information

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FAIR

• Focus on Access to Institutional Resources (FAIR), 14 projects

• sharing of images, museum objects via OAI, • setting up institutional repositories for eprints, learning

materials, etheses, administrative information– different software - EPrints, DSpace & ETD

[software at Virginia tech to support electronic dissertations and theses]- compare and contrast

– exploring metadata schema’s e.g. developed a UK schema based on DC for etheses

– advocacy for deposit – building a critical mass, why repositories can help you

– Workflow– learning materials

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JORUM

• National Learning Materials Repository Project with three aims:– Provide a test-bed repository service

for some content producing projects– Scope the requirements for a

national repository service– Procure the software for the national

repository service.

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JORUM (2)

• December 2002 - Intralibrary and Xtensis provided for test-bed repository.

• December 2003 - Scoping study and technical requirements report produced.

• August 2004 - Intralibrary selected as the software for the national service.

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JORUM (3)

•JORUM Service Set-Up and Launch– Installing and developing Intralibrary– Workflows– Business model– Outreach and liaison– Launch of service to UK Further and

Higher Education in August 2005

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JORUM (4)

•JORUM R & D– Continued support for repurposing

projects– Various repository watch activities

• Open source• International developments

– Ongoing as repository landscape develops, eg• Support formal/informal communities• Federated instances

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RELOAD

• content packaging tool– Open source– IMS compliant– SCORM compliant– Further development to implement

IMS Learning Design Specifications– Bridge between repositories and

learning management systems enabling learning materials to be shared…

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Issues

• How do learning repositories relate to digital libraries, institutional records management systems etc?

• What distinguishes a CMS, LMS and a repository?

Cultural barriers in universities and colleges – senior management buy-in, practitioner buy-in, incentives

• IPR!

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Issues (2)

• How can we address quality assurance issues in repositories?

• WIKIs, blogs, eportfolios – are they repositories?

• Who has responsibility – librarians, learning technologists, teachers?

• What are the business models?

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Digital Repositories programme

• Identify the national infrastructure required for both teaching and research working to support communities of practice

• Establish how to help embed digital repositories and develop appropriate methods and practice

• Further work on IPR and quality!• Build on existing work in partnership with DEST and

other agencies as appropriate

• The work will include projects that pilot, develop, review and evaluate practice, theory, policy and technology

The programme scope is :STILL to be finalised

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Further information:

• JISC Website                         – http://www.jisc.ac.uk

• Phase 2 invitation for support in transitioning to open access

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name =funding_open_access2

• Eprints and Open Access Journals Service Models Study http://www.jisc.ac.uk/journals_work.html

• JISC SURF Copyright http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding_copyrightinitiative

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Cont’d…

• FAIR http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_fair

• X4L http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_x4l – www.jorum.ac.uk– www.reload.ac.uk

• Etheses testbed http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding_etheses