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The Learning Content Management Repository Virtual Environment System 2.0 and Its Future The Repositories Bit. Sarah Currier Intrallect Ltd s.currier@intrallect.com http://www.intrallect.com
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The Learning Content Management Repository Virtual Environment System 2.0 and Its FutureThe Repositories Bit Sarah Currier Intrallect Ltd s.currier@intrallect.com http://www.intrallect.com JISC CETIS Conference 2008: Technology for Learning Teaching and the Institution, Birmingham, 25-26 Nov. 2008
Repositories: Factory or City? Today Andrew Feenberg contrasted a factory model of technology with an urban model • Repositories are often left out of discussions or denigrated in educational technology settings: why? • Is it because educationalists see them as exemplifying the factory model that threatens their humanistic values, pedagogical concerns and perhaps jobs? • But what would a city be without its libraries? (Maybe we’re going to find out if things keep going the way they are). • And what good is a library that doesn’t understand its community’s requirements? • We need repositories in e-learning, and we need to own the discussion, research, development and implementation of them on our own terms!
What are repositories for? • Digital repositories are services • Can be based on monolithic systems • Can be open source or commercial • Can be loosely or tightly managed conglomerations of disparate tools/services • What services?, e.g.: • Resource archiving and preservation • Metadata and IPR management • Storehouse (centralised or distributed) to deliver resources from • … that various organisations, communities and users can use for their purposes
Today’s presentation: • Digital Repositories are Services • Can be based on monolithic systems • Can be open source or commercial • Can be loosely or tightly managed conglomerations of disparate tools/services • What Services ?, e.g.: • Resource archiving and preservation • Metadata and IPR management • Storehouse (centralised or distributed) to deliver resources from • … that various organisations, communities and users can use for their purposes
In the beginning… Institution VLE Other VLEs Web sites eLearning
Fully-functioned… Institution VLE Open access portals Wikis, Blogs Other VLEs Scanned RAE evaluation Web sites CLA reporting requirements “Collection” Portal eLearning Research outputs ePrints Images Private
Standards & interfaces • inform • RSS, Yahoo pipes, podcasting • discover • SRU/SRW, OpenSearch • gather • OAI-PMH (DC, LOM, ODRL) • store • SWORD (Atom Publishing Protocol)
Everyday tools and intraLibrary • inform • Browsers, News Readers, Email, iTunes • discover • Browsers, Portals, VLEs • gather • Aggregators, Catalogues, Portals • store • Desktop, File system, Authoring Tools
discover – SRU client enables open repository • IRISS Learning Exchange Open Search • IRISS achieved open licence status for enough of their teaching and learning resources to offer an open web interface to their repository • Built on our open source SRU client; Open Search is also open source • Jorum are looking at building on this approach for JorumOpen • Various universities (e.g. Newcastle, Leeds Met) are using this to enable their institutional repositories to manage behind-the-wall learning resources and openly available research outputs • IRISS have initiated an intraLibrary User Group to facilitate sharing of tips and practice: http://intralibraryuserforum.ning.com/ • Let’s have a look: http://www.iriss.ac.uk/openlx/
IntraLibrary SWORD Desktop Tool Our SWORD Desktop Deposit tool supports: • Drag-and-drop desktop deposit: • Any file type • IMS Content Packages (including SCORM) with metadata • External Web links with metadata • Bulk deposit • Configuration of which collection(s) to deposit to • Immediate publication on deposit (or not) • Still allows for: • automatic and/or manual metadata and licensing generation • quality checking • all other workflow actions after publication
IntraLibrary & SWORD Other use cases Bespoke Bulk Migration • Intrallect has always done bespoke bulk content migrations for customers: but SWORD has made that a *lot* easier. NHS Scotland • Bulk nightly ingest of IRISS Learning Exchange metadata into NHS Scotland repository, using OAI-PMH to extract and SWORD to deposit • Nightly harvesting of repository metadata into wider NHS Scotland e-Library catalogue for use by NHS staff only. NHS England and NHS Scotland • Integration with MyKnowledgeMap authoring tool: • Create SCORM Packages in Compendle and click to direct deposit into intraLibrary (uses SWORD) • Easy end user interface using SRU, to search repository materials on the open Web
The whole picture Other interfaces … … once you’ve got the stuff in via SWORD, you can … • inform: push it straight out again by collection / search / browse / tag / favourites using: • RSS, Podcasting • discover: find it again straight away (or after rights and quality metadata is added) using: • SRU/SRW, OpenSearch, Google Sitemaps • gather: scoop it all up overnight and feed it straight into your catalogue for the next day’s users, using: • OAI-PMH (DC, LOM, ODRL) • store: push it straight out again into other repositories in one action, so the contributor doesn’t have to upload more than once, using: • SWORD (Atom Publishing Protocol)
Conclusions • Digital repositories can • integrate with your existing tools • offer reliable single source access/archiving • are easy to search (metadata/classification) • encourage mashups, etc. • Open standards • support new uses with existing tools • put power in the hands of the user • are the basis for open access • … and possibly for supporting ongoing open educational resource management requirements • T&L repositories require (IMHO) • a dedicated manager to oversee policy, implementation and community co-ordination and support • information management expertise (can be the same person as above, or not) • technical expertise • a direct line to relevant communities of practice the repository is serving • strategic institutional support with ongoing funding
Watch for: • JISC study on business models and business cases for sharing teaching and learning materials • Report due out in a few weeks • Intrallect and Lou McGill • Looks at existing business models for sharing t&l resources, AND • … the tangential or orthogonal(?) relationship between sharing resources and the OER movement. • JISC-funded guidelines on staffing repositories projects (about to be funded).
