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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?

• Research Archive

• Digital Asset Repository

Started life in 2007 as the CIRCLE project, funded by JISC as part of a £14m national programme to develop repositories in Higher Education

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RADAR architecture

Research

Other resources

…organised in collections

Teaching collection

Open and closed resources

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What’s in the Teaching collection?

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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)

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RADAR and the VLE

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Storing materials in the VLEU51083

Corporate strategy

Referencing guide

U54020 Hospitality

Referencing guide

Religion and

philosophy

Referencing guide

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U51083 Corporate strategy

U54020 Hospitality

Religion and

philosophy

RADAR

Referencing guide

Storing materials in RADAR

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Demos

• Overview of the Teaching collection

• Using RADAR within the VLE

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What’s in the Research collection?

Demo of Research Collection

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Brookes Virtual

Staff profiles

Academics / Researchers at Brookes – outputs: publications, theses, books, conference papers, exhibitions, installations

SchoolsResearch Administrators

Performance metricsRBDOREF

radar – research archive and digital asset repository“..showcasing Brookes research and managing online teaching materials”

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Staff Profiles

http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/schooldir/data/~hzhu

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Use of RSS feeds

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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

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Working with the XML

Directorate of Learning Resources

Working with the XML

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Working with the XML

Directorate of Learning Resources

Working with the XML

Google desktop

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• Brookes research has higher visibility

• Better management of online teaching resources

• Better opportunities for sharing/ reusing resources

Summary

Directorate of Learning Resources

RADARResearch Archive and Digital Asset Repository

www.brookes.ac.uk/go/radar