Repositories in learning

Last updated Sept 2006

These pages contain links to projects which are seeking to develop or examine the use of existing repository services based on the standards supported by this SIG and their integration into the teaching and learning experience.

Selection criteria:
 * Must be relevant to UK Further and Higher Education
 * Must support relevant interoperability standards for learning resources, e.g. IEEE LOM, IMS content packages.

Disclaimer

Inclusion on this list does not constitute and endorsement or recommendation; omission from this list should not be taken to imply criticism. Quotes are selected from the project websites. All trademarks are acknowledged.

DIDET
Digital Libraries for Global Distributed Innovative Design, Education and Teamwork - "The project proposes the development, implementation and use of a testbed to improve the teaching and learning of students partaking in global team-based design projects and combines the use of digital libraries with virtual design studios. The work is timely in that there is a pressing need in industry for graduates with global design team working skills. It has also been shown that those with the core skill of design are able to contribute in a wide range of professions."

Partners: University of Strathclyde, Stanford University

Subject: Design and manufacturing engineering

Duration: 2003-2008

URL: http://dmem1.ds.strath.ac.uk/didet/

DART
"Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching aims to explore the potential of digital resources for the teaching of undergraduate anthropology. The project will also investigate digital-library technologies that will allow for the flexible delivery and customized use of these resources."

Partners: London School of Economics, Columbia University

Subject: Anthropology

Duration: 2003-2008

URL: http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/dart/

Dialog Plus
"The DialogPlus project develops and deploys reusable digital learning nuggets through the Alexandria Digital Library.

Two primary goals of DialogPlus are to develop:
 * A distributed information infrastructure that supports the teaching and learning of Geography
 * Innovative approaches to teaching and learning, based on this infrastructure."

The project aims to show how:
 * Cross-national collaboration and on-line delivery can enrich Geography programs in the consortium universities
 * A common, open and distributed digital library infrastructure can support different virtual learning environments
 * Important spatial information analytical skills can be taught online and major geospatial resources can be used in study programs

Partners: Pennsylvania State University, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Southampton, Leeds University

Subject: Geography

Duration: 2003-2008

URL: http://www.dialogplus.org/

The Spoken Word
"The Spoken Word Project proposes to transform undergraduate learning and teaching through integrating the rich media resources of digital audio repositories into undergraduate courses in history, political science and cognate disciplines in the U.S. and Britain. The project will take full advantage of the flexibility inherent in digital repositories and build processes for learning that will fundamentally expand the way students and teachers understand knowledge, knowledge resources, and their own complementary roles in higher education. "

Partners: Michigan State University, Northwestern University, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Glasgow Caledonian University, BBC - Information & Archives

Subject: History and Political Science

Duration: 2003-2006

URL: http://historicalvoices.org/spokenword/

DigiRepWiki
Wiki page for the eLearning cluster of the JISC Digital Repository Programme.

URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Category:E-learning_cluster

ASK
Accessing and Storing Knowledge - "The ASK project will develop a suite of open source software artefacts that support learners, researchers and teachers in securely accessing and sharing learning objects. The overall goal of the project is to build interoperability between user agents and information systems normally under library department management. The ASK project is a direct response to the project partners' institutional needs to integrate library and learning services."

Partners: University of Oxford (lead), UHI Millennium Institute, University of Manchester

Subject: General

Duration: 2005-2007

URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_ask

PROWE
Personal Repositories Online: WIKI Environment - "The PROWE project will provide an innovative informal environment to support collaboration and learning amongst part-time, remote tutors on distance education programmes. PROWE will offer tools both for storing and managing resources - such as case studies and personal library resources - and make them available through informal conversational networks."

Partners: Open University (Library and Institute of Educational Technology), University of Leicester, Beyond Distance Research Alliance

Subject: General

Duration: 2005-2007

URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_prowe

SPIRE
Secure Personal Institutional and Inter-Institutional Repository Environment - "The SPIRE Project will focus on the setup and working through of the feasibility of peer-2-peer (P2P) technologies to aid UK learning design:
 * Pragmatic setup of a supported installation and running of a P2P system (LionShare) until March 2007
 * Researching the methodologies involved in combining e-learning courseware authoring with P2P collaborative possibilities
 * Initial exploration into combining the Reload tool with LionShare functionality."

Partners: University of Oxford, Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning team (lead); Teaching and Learning with Technology LionShare Team, Penn State University

Associates: Reload Team

Subject: General

Duration: 2005-2007

URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_spire

UKCDR
UK collaboration for a digital repository - "UK collaboration for a digital repository to support sharing high quality, high-stakes assessment items. This project will implement a UK-wide infrastructure to develop and share high quality, high-stakes assessment."

Partners: University of Manchester (lead), University of Leeds, University of Liverpool, University of Newcastle, University of Sheffield, Universities Medical Assessment Partnership (UMAP), Stockton Riverside College, West Cheshire College, UCLAN FE network, FE partners of collaborating HEIs

Subject: General

Duration: 2005-2007

URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_ukcdr

CDLOR
Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories - "This project aims to identify and analyse the factors that influence practical uptake and implementation of learning object (LO) repositories, with a focus on social and cultural issues. It will explore the use of LO repositories within learning communities based within single institutions as well as those that exist across institutions, regionally, nationally and internationally. Diverse learning communities are represented through eight project associates with considerable expertise in the development of LO repositories. The project partners will work closely with these associates to develop and test solutions to emerging requirements in support of uptake and implementation of LOs and LO repositories."

Partners: University of Dundee, University of Strathclyde, Intrallect Ltd

Associates: Aberdeen University, Edinburgh University's LORE (Learning Object Repository for Edinburgh), IVIMEDS: The International Virtual Medical School, JORUM, The Spoken Word Project (JISC/NSF funded), The Stòr Cùram Project (Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education), UHI Millennium Institute, University of Ireland, Galway

Subject: General

Duration: 2005-2007

URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_cdlor

TrustDR
"This project will explore the emergent issues relating to the use of Digital Repositories within the UK HE/FE sectors, fully investigating the issues, challenges and opportunities relating to Digital Repositories from multiple stakeholder perspectives. The project will initially undertake benchmark activities within the consortium, with identified project partners and beyond, relating to existing business processes and digital content/repository usage. "

Partners: University of Ulster, UHI Millennium Institute, Athens Eduserv, Intrallect Ltd

Subject: General

Duration: 2005-2007

URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_trustdr

RepoMMan
Repository Metadata and Management - "The Repository Metadata and Management Project (RepoMMan) aims to:
 * Assess the feasibility of automated population of object metadata within an authenticated environment"
 * Conduct a detailed user requirements analysis to underpin this effort, focusing on both existing repository/storage usage and the boundary between personal and institutional repository space
 * Adapt a generic workflow framework to the requirements of common repository tasks within an approach based around Service Oriented Architecture."

Partners: The University of Hull

Subject: General

Duration: 2005-2007

URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_repomman

SHERPA Plus
"The SHERPA Plus project is a major initiative to support repository development in all UK Higher Education institutions. SHERPA Plus will create a national information point for repository development, evaluate strategies to promote repositories population, and launch a national forum for repository administrators."

Partners: University of Nottingham (on behalf of the SHERPA partnership)

Subject: General

Duration: 2005-2007

URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_sherpa_plus

Rights and Rewards
"This project will address motivational issues facing depositors, focusing on the support issues, rights protection and rewards necessary to motivate teaching academics to use."

Partners: Loughborough University Department of Information Science, Loughborough University Engineering Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, Loughborough University Library

Subject: General

Duration: 2005-2007

URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_rights_and_rewards

ELENA
"Overall ELENA aims to demonstrate the feasibility of smart learning spaces defined as educational service mediators) which allow the consumption of heterogeneous learning services via assessment tools, learning management systems, educational (meta) repositories and live delivery systems, such as video conferencing systems."

Partners: AllWeb (Chalkis, Greece), BearingPoint INFONOVA GmbH (Graz, Austria), CSI - Centre for Social Innovation (Vienna, Austria), CDI (Munich, Germany), Iceland Telecom (Reykjavik, Iceland), imc information multimedia communication AG (Saarbruecken, Germany), Institut 'Jozef Stefan' (Ljubljana, Slovenija), NCSR (National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos) (Athens, Greece), Universidad Polictécnica Madrid Department of Telematic Engineering (Madrid, Spain), University of Hanover - Learning Lab Lower Saxony (L3S) (Hanover, Germany), Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration Information Systems Department) (Vienna, Austria)

Subject: General

Duration: 2002-2005 Website updates beyond this

URL: http://www.elena-project.org