Introduction to JORUM LRC Forum , 1 st November 2005 Basford Hall, New College Nottingham

1. Introduction to JORUMLRC Forum, 1st November 2005Basford Hall, New College Nottingham

2. Presenters • Michael Dodds, JORUM Outreach Officer • Michael.Dodds@manchester.ac.uk, 0161 275 6079 • Ryan Hargreaves, JORUM Training and Support Officer • Ryan.Hargreaves@manchester.ac.uk, 0161 275 0609

3. Overview • JORUM is a JISC-funded collaborative venture in UK Higher and Further Education to collect and share learning and teaching materials, allowing their reuse and repurposing. JORUM stands as a national statement of the importance of creating interoperable, sustainable materials. • The service will be jointly run between the EDINA and MIMAS national data centres based at the Universities of Edinburgh and Manchester respectively. • Service in Development – JORUM Contributor and User

4. JORUM History Oct 2002 – Jul 2004 Development Project exploring the need for and requirements of a national repository Jan 2003 – Dec 2003 Undertook requirements gathering exercise prior to procurement Jan 2004 - Jul 2004 Completed procurement exercise under EU rules Jul 2004 Selected Intrallect’s intraLibrary as the repository system Aug 2004 – Jul 2005 Building the infrastructure needed to provide a service Aug 2005 – Jul 2008 Developing a service framework and providing support; includes R&D

5. Background: Why have a JISC repository? • Provides long-term retention for publicly funded outputs • An experimental national repository promoting sharing, reuse and repurposing of content • Will take learning/educational/training materials and staff development/teaching support materials • Accepts materials from publicly funded projects or departmental projects within institutions • Stands as a national statement of importance attached by the funding councils to the importance of sharing

6. JORUM Service-in-Development • JORUM Contributor – “Putting content in” • Allows colleges and universities to deposit learning and teaching materials. This will launch before JORUM User to build up content and will begin as soon as possible. • JORUM User – “Taking content out” • Provides teaching and support staff with access to the materials themselves. • R&D • Other areas of work: R&D – An ongoing research and development strand will run in parallel with the JORUM service

7. Research Areas • Current R&D areas: • Technical Infrastructure/Landscape and fit with JISC IE and eFramework • Expanding the JORUM licensing model • Metadata Watch, including automated metadata systems • Review of cataloguing/workflow model • Preservation/long-term retention of materials • Cultural change • Future R&D work: • Technical DRM solution • Web security • JORUM and e-Commerce • Use of JORUM objects in mobile learning • Views onto JORUM • Impact and summative evaluation

8. JORUM Contributor- “Putting content in” • JORUM will host materials that have been publicly funded and also materials that have been developed within institutions. • Learning Resources – single assets (documents, images, diagrams) to comprehensive learning objects (interactive units made up of several elements such as images, text and self-assessment exercises) • Teaching Resources – supporting teaching staff in doing their job (e.g. tutor guides, lesson plans, schemes of work and staff development materials) • Have to be willing to share with UK F/HE • Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is working in partnership with JORUM to provide cataloguing services

9. Sources of materials for JORUM • Centrally funded e-learning projects • JISC Projects (e.g. X4L Phase 1 and 2, Distributed e-Learning projects) • HE Academy Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) • UK Further and Higher Education • Individual institutions • Institutions working as part of a Consortium • Working with other organisations/programmes • Other JISC services e.g. Digital Curation Centre • HE Academy Subject Centres

10. JORUM Deposit Licence • Print-based, signed by institution, grants liberal permissions • Contributors grant non-exclusive, royalty-free, licence to use Licensed Materials for Educational (non-commercial) Purposes: • Aggregate, annotate, Excerpt and modify • Search, retrieve, display and download • Save, print • Incorporate into learning environments & compile into study packs • Promotional purposes

11. JORUM User - “Taking content out” • FREE service, currently Athens-authenticated • Institutions sign up to the service via JISC Collections • Available to teaching staff from UK F/HE institutions • Able to find, preview, download, reuse and repurpose materials for use with learners in their institution • Also a collection of teaching support, staff development and case study materials • Institutions will nominate 1 site representative and 1 technical support representative • Helpdesk services, training and support will be available

12. LRC/Library Staff • Primarily interested in JORUM User – accessing the materials • Available FREE in the New Year • JORUM will be a service like other data centre services (institutions will be asked to “subscribe” to the service at the JISC Collections Website) • Athens authenticated • Supported Locally through Site Reps (who may be LRC staff, library staff, librarians, learning technologists, ILT champions etc).

13. Site Reps/Technical Reps Site Reps • Provide support to end users accessing material within a “subscribed” institution - assistance with queries etc • Run scheduled or requested training sessions with users within an institution • Take part in regional/national JORUM training sessions • Cascade (promote) information about the JORUM services to users • Provide feedback to the support team and suggest improvements for users • Be an active member of the JORUM user lists • Liaise with the technical representative • Provide information to users on legal requirements Technical Reps • Liaise with Network Managers and web master in making resources available • Provide support to users within a subscribed institution, using resources in VLEs • Assist the site representative in their support role as required

14. JORUM Support • A new website provides information, news, guidance on registration and log-in, and a range of useful materials – www.jorum.ac.uk. • Documentation and promotional materials support the two strands. • JORUM provides training events and demonstrations of the system. • JORUM provides 24/7 system access and helpdesk assistance during office hours. Users of the service will benefit from management of their data and support services at the data centres. • Contributors benefit from legal security, authenticated protection of their content, cataloguing assistance to attach metadata and workflow functionality.

15. www.jorum.ac.uk