National Repository Strategies: Some Higher and Further Education ExamplesCharles [email protected]
2-day Symposium
• Implementing National Repositories Symposium
• 26/27 June 2008
• JORUM, UK, HE+FE, 600 institutions
• COLEG, Scotland, FE, 40 institutions
• NDLR, Ireland, HE+FE, 21 institutions
• NCEL, Saudi Arabia, HE, 20 institutions
JORUM
Jorum Open
COLEG
• A partnership of Scotland’s colleges based on member’s subscriptions
• 13 years of collaboration (established 1995)
• COLEG “key contact” in each college
• A mechanism for sharing high quality learning materials– Initially paper-based
– 46,000 hours of materials
• Using repository from January 2008
NDLR
• Pilot project Goal:– Producing a full ongoing repository service
for “Teaching and Learning Resources”
– Developing and supporting communities of academics in different academic disciplines
• 3 year pilot + 1 year evaluation = Future Roadmap for Full Service
• Evaluation ends Dec 2008
NCEL
• National Centre for eLearning and Distance Learning, Saudi Arabia
• Just starting repository project– Summer 2008
Topics
Implementing National Repositories
Content Ease of useMotivation Rights Quality
History Staff rolesCritical mass Infrastructure Sustainability
Content
• Supplier/Consumer model
• Who supplies content?– Individuals, projects, institutions
– Funded initiatives, commissioned
– Commercial publishers
– Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Who consumes content?– Teachers
– Students
Content
• JORUM– Suppliers: Funded projects, individuals– Consumers: Teachers
• COLEG– Suppliers: Legacy material, projects– Consumers: college representatives
• NDLR– Suppliers: communities of practice (existing,
bespoke)– Consumers: communities of practice, teachers
Motivation
NDLRJORUM
COLEG
Rights
• JORUM– Depositor’s licence (institutional)
– Conditions of use (no re-deposit)
– Jorum Open – Creative Commons
• COLEG– Existing licence conditions
• NDLR– Similar to Jorum
– But additional individual Depositor’s licence
Ease of Use
• JORUM– Need user account
– Need institution to have signed agreement
– Jorum Open – moving towards open access
• COLEG– Need user account
• NDLR– Need user account
Ease of Use
• Evidence from other repositories is that need to register is a barrier to use
• Open access interface to same repository can act as a shop window
• 1-9-90 rule
Quality
• JORUM– Quality assures metadata– No review of content
• COLEG– Formal peer-review process with quality
“mark”– Also un-reviewed without quality mark
• NDLR– Customisable publishing workflows
History
• JORUM– 3 year set-up phase
– 3 year service (in preparation) phase
– Now revised service based on lessons learned
• COLEG– 13 years non-repository based,1 year repository
• NDLR– 3 year pilot phase, 1 year evaluation
– Service to start 2009
Critical Mass
• Is critical mass a useful concept?• It is a user-centred concept• Bulk migration• JORUM
– Project-based, response variable
• COLEG– Centrally supported migration
• NDLR– Communities of Practice use different
approaches
NDLR Communities of Practice
Repository to support Communities NOT Communities built around a repository
• Applied Social Studies (ASSCoP)
• Apprentice-based Learning
• Art & Conflict
• Chemical and Physical Sciences (CPSCoP)
• Computer Science (CSCoP)
• Education (EDUCoP)
• Library Information Skills
• Mathematics and Statistics Service Teaching in Higher Education (MSHECoP)
• Mechanical Engineering (MECoP)
• Modern Languages (ModLangCoP)
• Nursing and Midwifery (NMCoP)
• Technology Enhanced Learning (TELCoP)
• Veterinary and Bio-Environmental (VETBIOCoP)
Infrastructure
• National authentication (ATHENS, OpenAthens)
• Funding support for projects (JISC, HEA, SFC)– Content
– Reuse
– Integration
• Information support (JISC)– Rights awareness
– E-learning/pedagogy/standards awareness
Staff Roles
• Roles– Project manager– Repository administrator– Community coordinators– Outreach/PR/marketing– Legal/licence coordinator– Librarian– Cataloguers– Content Manager– Trainers– Evaluator– Developers (technical)– Support/help desk– Steering group (direction)
• Approaches– Core team– Full-time/part-time– Seconded– Out-sourced– Volunteers– Rotate roles– Ensure representation
for all stakeholder institutions and groups
Sustainability
Sustainability
• Requires measures of success
• Stakeholders need different measures– Institutions, users, contributors, funders
• Hard metrics– Numbers, references, generations
• Soft metrics– Cultural change, impact, quality , satisfaction
• Stories
More Information
• Concept maps
• Report
• To come…– Improving the evidence base for sharing
educational resources (Dec 2008)