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An introduction to RADAR. What is RADAR?. Research Archive Digital Asset Repository. What is RADAR?. Started life in 2007 as the CIRCLE project, funded by JISC as part of a £14m national programme to develop repositories in Higher Education. Research Archive Digital Asset Repository.
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An introduction to RADAR Directorate of Learning Resources
What is RADAR? • Research Archive • Digital Asset Repository Directorate of Learning Resources
What is RADAR? Started life in 2007 as the CIRCLE project, funded by JISC as part of a £14m national programme to develop repositories in Higher Education • Research Archive • Digital Asset Repository Directorate of Learning Resources
RADAR architecture …organised in collections Teaching collection Research Open and closed resources Other resources Directorate of Learning Resources
What’s in the Teaching collection? Directorate of Learning Resources
What’s not in the Teaching collection? • Administrative documents such as minutes of meetings • Work in progress requiring very frequent changes (collaborative software like wikis is more appropriate) Directorate of Learning Resources
RADAR and the VLE Directorate of Learning Resources
Storing materials in the VLE U51083 Corporate strategy U54020 Hospitality Religion and philosophy Referencing guide Referencing guide Referencing guide Directorate of Learning Resources
Storing materials in RADAR U51083 Corporate strategy U54020 Hospitality Religion and philosophy RADAR Referencing guide Directorate of Learning Resources
Demos • Overview of the Teaching collection • Using RADAR within the VLE Directorate of Learning Resources
What’s in the Research collection? Demo of Research Collection Directorate of Learning Resources
radar – research archive and digital asset repository“..showcasing Brookes research and managing online teaching materials” Directorate of Learning Resources
Staff Profiles http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/schooldir/data/~hzhu Directorate of Learning Resources
Use of RSS feeds Directorate of Learning Resources
Technical spec • J2EE application on Solaris box (Tomcat) • ORACLE database • Integrated with Brookes LDAP (AD) • Standards compliant (SOAP and WSDL, OAI, RSS) • Internal ACL structure – very granular Directorate of Learning Resources
Working with the XML Directorate of Learning Resources
Working with the XML Directorate of Learning Resources
Working with the XML Directorate of Learning Resources
Working with the XML Google desktop Directorate of Learning Resources
Summary • Brookes research has higher visibility • Better management of online teaching resources • Better opportunities for sharing/ reusing resources Directorate of Learning Resources
RADARResearch Archive and Digital Asset Repository www.brookes.ac.uk/go/radar Directorate of Learning Resources