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April 2006
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RepoMMan Project
http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/repomman/index.html To keep going on the apparent ‘open source repository’ theme today, this JISC-funded project appears to be using Fedora and Sakai to investigate automated population of metadata based on contextual information provided by the portal environment, to examine the boundaries of personal versus institutional digital resource management, and to develop some workflow aroud common [...]
Presentation on Archiving Course Websites to DSpace, Using a Content Packaging Profile & Web Services
http://cwspace.mit.edu/docs/ProjectMgt/Reports/ DLF-Spring2006/MIT-CWSpace-DLF-Spring2006.ppt.htm For a long time I’ve been asked about available open source learning object repositories, and specifically about whether DSpace could work as a LOR. My answer regarding DSpace, up to now, has always been – well it depends on what your use cases are. If you didn’t care about things like IMS Content [...]
Presentations from OSS Watch's Open Source and Sustainability Conference
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2006-04-10-12/ Lots of value here for decision makers and others struggling to make arguments for the adoption of open source in higher ed (and lots of ‘Stevenote’ inspired presentations for those tired of reading lots of text on slides). Too many to really go into detail, but I quite liked “Your Open Source Strategy Sucks!” [...]
ECAR Report – Identity Management in Higher Education
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ERS0602 Being just a pleeb who doesn’t work for anyone with an EACR membership, I’ve only been able to read the public ‘key findings’ document from this recent ECAR study, “Identity Management in Higher Education: A Baseline Study” (and hey, I’m not really complaining that much, it is nice that they make the highlights available [...]
Email back up
Apologies for these administrative posts – my email’s back up. Thanks to those who tried to work around the outtage. – SWL
Comparison of content policies for institutional repositories in Australia
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_4/sale/ “This short paper analyses their content and shows that a requirement to deposit research output into a repository coupled with effective author support policies works in Australia and delivers high levels of content. Voluntary deposit policies do not, regardless of any author support by the university.” Kind of says it all. Or does it? [...]
DOOR – Digital Open Object Repository
http://door.sourceforge.net/ OK, I know NOTHING about this, so don’t even ask, but it seemed like something of interest (if you are still flailing away at that LOR hobgoblin) – an open source Learning Object Repository written in PHP and using MySQL as the backend which supports both the IMS metadata and content package specifications. Looks [...]
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