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Digital Repositories for Teaching and Learning JISC Regional Support Centre West Midlands Discovere2009 Wednesday 19 th May 2009 www.bath.ac.uk UKOLN is supported by: Mahendra Mahey Repositories Research Officer Repositories Research Team UKOLN and CETIS

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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

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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)  

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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  

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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    

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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  

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Repositories  

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What  is  a  repository?  

A  grain  silo  

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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)  

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Repositories  More  than  just  a  store  

hYp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX3C80yWKbI  

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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)  

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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  

MM  

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Open  Source  

•  Is  not  really  ‘free’  •  Requires  investment,  Jme,  money,  resources  

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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  

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hYp://www.rubric.edu.au/extrafiles/wheel/index.html  

Repository  Wheel  

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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

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Management  

•  Usually  requires  at  least  one  person  to  manage  it  

•  Manage  content  and  metadata  

•  Where?  

•  Library,  e-­‐learning,  department?  

•  Typically  under-­‐resourced  

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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    

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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  

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Learning  and  teaching  drivers…   text  chat    

• What  do  you  think?  

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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  

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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)  

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A  quick  tour…  

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JORUM  naJonal  repository  for  learning  materials  

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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  

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Language  Box  

hYp://languagebox.eprints.org/  

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CoRe  –  Coventry  City  College  

hYp://learning.covcollege.ac.uk/demo/  

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LORENET  

hYp://www.lorenet.nl/nl/page/luzi/show?showcase=1  

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Harvest  Road  (GunM  Labs)  

hYp://www.giunJlabs.com/HarvestRoad_Hive/index.php?info.php?vvu=12&  

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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  

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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  

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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/  

JA  

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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    

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Benefits  Discussion  

•  What  benefits  do  you  see  for  your  insJtuJon?  

text  chat    text  chat    

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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  

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Trust  DR  project  

•  Produced  some  excellent  resources  for  insJtuJons  in  this  area  

•  hYp://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/  

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Discussion  

•  Any  IPR  issues  you  can  see  emerging  or  have  emerged?  

text  chat    text  chat    

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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  

MM  

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Key  issues  for  insMtuMons  

•  So  what  are  your  key  issues?  

text  chat    

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ImplementaMon  Issues  

•  Are  there  any  specific  issues  that  you  would  like  menJon?  

text  chat    

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Wrap  up  

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Thanks  

•  [email protected]