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Presentation given at D-e2009, JISC RSC West Midlands event, May 19, 2009. About Digital Repositories, their landscape in Higher and Further Education and more specifically about learning and teaching repositories. Download is PDF.
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Digital Repositories for Teaching and Learning
JISC Regional Support Centre West Midlands Discover-‐e-‐2009 Wednesday 19th May 2009
www.bath.ac.uk
UKOLN is supported by:
Mahendra Mahey Repositories Research Officer Repositories Research Team UKOLN and CETIS
My background…
• Teaching, management and learning resources • Lecturer in FE/HE in Psychology, English as a Foreign
Language, CompuJng, MulJmedia in the UK and abroad • Management and development of open, distance and e-‐
learning materials, learning centres, departments • RSC Advisor for Learning and Teaching Resources for West
Midlands and Scotland North and East • Repositories Research Officer for UKOLN as part of the
Repositories Research Team (UKOLN, CETIS and JISC)
ObjecMves
• Explain what repositories are • Background informaJon and issues around them (technical and management)
• Learning and teaching repositories in further and higher educaJon
• Sharing e-‐learning resources, pracJces, methods and tools
• Discussion about issues surrounding them
Some convenMons …about DIMDIM
• Technical problem? MaY Gallon available to help – use text chat, or phone if you can
• Please contribute to the discussion via text, when you see:
• If you really want to speak, ask MaY to hand over the microphone to you
• Please leave quesJons to the ‘text chat ‘ secJons or discussion secJons, if possible
• However, if you really don’t understand something, please indicate this via text chat and I will stop and explain
• I will ask ‘please stop’ , try to summarise and move on to the next secJon
• How many of you are new to DIMDIM, just say yes or no?
text chat
text chat
JISC Vision ‘To establish a network of digital resources and services, in order to significantly improve content use and cura<on for educa<on and research’
JISC have invested a lot of money in the last 6 years in research and development into digital repositories
Repositories
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What is a repository?
A grain silo
What is a repository?
• ‘a collecJon of digital objects’, a keep-‐safe • Typically containing research papers, learning materials, data • In FE tends to be learning materials /objects (e.g. NLN materials and home grown things)
Repositories More than just a store
hYp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX3C80yWKbI
More than just soRware/hardware…
“an ins<tu<onal repository is a set of services that an educa<onal organisa<on offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemina<on of digital materials created by the ins<tu<on and its community members. It is most essen<ally an organiza<onal commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-‐term preserva<on where appropriate, as well as organiza<on and access or distribu<on. ….. An ins<tu<onal repository is not simply a fixed set of soJware and hardware.”
Clifford Lynch. 'InsJtuJonal repositories : essenJal infrastructure for scholarship in the digital age'. ARL Bimonthly Report, February 2003
hYp://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html
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CharacterisMcs of a repository • content is deposited • content is managed as well as the metadata • minimum services e.g. put, get, search, access control
• should be sustainable and trusted, well-‐supported and well-‐managed
• could support open access to content and / or metadata
• may require authenJcaJon (many learning materials repositories)
Technical Requirements • Repositories built on open source standards (Linux, Apache, MySql and PHP/PERL)
• Requires specialist skills to install set, e.g. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP)
• Requires relaJvely high processing power • Most repositories can expose metadata for harvesJng if not the actual data – through OAIPMH (can be important for sharing) – Open Archives IniJaJve Protocol for Metadata HarvesJng
• May be built up of a number of service components invisible to user
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Open Source
• Is not really ‘free’ • Requires investment, Jme, money, resources
The many flavours of repositories • Content
– Eprints, learning materials, corporate records, research data, mulJmedia objects
• Coverage – Departmental, InsJtuJonal, Regional, NaJonal, Personal (web
site / blog)
• User Group / Domain / Community – Learners, teachers, administrators
• Access Policies – Open, restricted
• DistribuJon – Centralised, federated
• FuncJon / Purpose – Open access, subject access, publicaJon, sharing and re-‐use,
preservaJon
JA
hYp://www.rubric.edu.au/extrafiles/wheel/index.html
Repository Wheel
Your insMtuMon?
• Please use the text chat to tell me if your insJtuJon has: – A repository – if so what? – Virtual Learning Environment? What? – Is your insJtuJon thinking of gemng one?
text chat
I will give you a couple of minutes and then say ‘Please stop’ I may ask further questions for clarification At the end of the chat I will try and summarise and then move on
Management
• Usually requires at least one person to manage it
• Manage content and metadata
• Where?
• Library, e-‐learning, department?
• Typically under-‐resourced
Who manages it?
• Using your text chat window • Please tell me who manages, or who might manage a repository in your insJtuJon
• Why?
text chat text chat
Drivers?
• EffecJve management of insJtuJonal assets • Open access – impact, visibility, value of public funding • Serials crisis – insJtuJons can’t afford all subscripJons • Enhanced communicaJon amongst peers • Linking data to research • Learning materials sharing
hYp://www.flickr.com/photos/yannisag/1835411334/
• VLEs ‘locking’ content in – Learning Object repositories ‘free objects’ from course, easier to reuse
Learning and teaching drivers… text chat
• What do you think?
hYp://www.opendoar.org/
OpenDoar
Directory of Open Access Repositories
Quality-‐assured lis<ng of open access repositories around the world
Includes details of available policies
(Very useful tool)
Register your repository!
Repositories around the world
Example Repository SoRware pla[orms
Learning Object Repositories • Intrallibrary – JORUM based on this (from Intrallect )£ • Harvest Road Hive£ • Core – developed at Coventry City College£(cheap) • Moodle and MR CUTE Research Repositories • Eprints • DSpace • Fedora • (most popular in universiJes) • Open repository – commercial venture (www.openrepository.com)
A quick tour…
JORUM naJonal repository for learning materials
Jorum developments
Jorum Community Bay • aims to support knowledge sharing and discussion about all aspects of sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching resources
• using Moodle
• in development
• next stage will be to populate the Community Bay -‐ with help and input from our community
Language Box
hYp://languagebox.eprints.org/
CoRe – Coventry City College
hYp://learning.covcollege.ac.uk/demo/
LORENET
hYp://www.lorenet.nl/nl/page/luzi/show?showcase=1
Harvest Road (GunM Labs)
hYp://www.giunJlabs.com/HarvestRoad_Hive/index.php?info.php?vvu=12&
MR CUTE and Moodle
• An opJonal add-‐on repository for Moodle • A search system for finding ready made learning materials both inside and outside an insJtuJon and embedding them in Moodle courses
• A way of storing and sharing materials outside specific courses to – minimise server space usage – encourage sharing – enable site wide use of materials without further upload – allow non technical teachers to create packages
Gebng access to MR CUTE2
• MrCute 2
hYp://www.mrcute.co.uk or hYp://www.learningobjecJvity.com/mrcute
• Enrolment key for test area: cuJe
• No key required to download, but you must create an account
Flickr
• Content: Images • Coverage: InternaJonal; community-‐based; personal • FuncJon: sharing and re-‐use • Community / Domain: Anyone / Public • Centralised • Part open access, part access controlled
hdp://www.flickr.com/ • Flickr API
– Allows innovaJve re-‐use of Flickr data, e.g. hdp://metaatem.net/words/
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Show us yours…
• If you have a repository or VLE, paste the link into the chat window for everyone to see
• Do you use any cool tools to share?
text chat
Benefits Discussion
• What benefits do you see for your insJtuJon?
text chat text chat
Legal • Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
– Copyright – Other: database rights, moral rights, performers’ rights,
trademarks, patents • Copyright
– Who owns? Author, InsJtuJon – Publisher agreements -‐ Sherpa Romeo (
hYp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php) – Moral rights are also important – paternity and integrity rights
• InsJtuJon as publisher – Securing the right to publish, store, preserve – Plagiarism/copyright infringement, other infringements – DefamaJon, inaccurate informaJon, confidenJality, libel – Freedom of InformaJon and Data ProtecJon
• Risk Assessment • Licences / policies
– deposit AND end-‐user • CreaJve Commons licenses seem to popular JA
Trust DR project
• Produced some excellent resources for insJtuJons in this area
• hYp://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/
Discussion
• Any IPR issues you can see emerging or have emerged?
text chat text chat
Policy
• Policies are important when implemenJng any service
• Policies can cover; legal issues, who deposits, who adds metadata, long term preservaJon, etc
• One current concern is whether it is good to mandate deposit into the repository or not and whether this is a good thing
• It’s one thing having a policy, it’s another thing complying to it though!
• Open Doar policy tool • hYp://www.opendoar.org/tools/policytool.php
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Key issues for insMtuMons
• So what are your key issues?
text chat
ImplementaMon Issues
• Are there any specific issues that you would like menJon?
text chat
Wrap up
Thanks