In the UKOER programme a number of projects have chosen to use repository software to manage their educational materials. Such software may be commercial, open source, or hosted (often using open source). Alongside research information systems, repositories occupy an increasingly well established position in institutional infrastructure for managing and sharing research materials (including theses, preprints, and metadata about articles). Consequently for many institutions they offer a natural choice to manage and share OERs.
When I’m aware of a repository holding research content as well as OERs I’ve noted this: educational materials only or mixed materials.
Fedora
http://www.fedora-commons.org/
- Phorus
- may harvest their MySQL based solution into their host institution’s repository (outwith project- presumably mixed materials).
- Skills for Scientists
- will move all resources into host institutional repository for preservation/ long term access.
- not all content suitable for Jorum e.g. Scottish ~CC licensed stuff. (mixed materials)
Intralibrary
http://www.intrallect.com/index.php/intrallect/products
- Unicycle
- mixed materials
Equella
http://www.thelearningedge.com.au/products.php
- Berlin
- educational materials only
- OpenCourseWare branded
- OCEP
- mixed materials
Harvest Road Hive
http://www.giuntilabs.com/HarvestRoad_Hive/index.php
- OpenStaffs
- unknown from context probably educational materials only
ePrints
- ADM OER partner
- unknown collection composition
- HumBox
- educational materials only
- ChemistryFM
- will be using institutional ePrints as preservation store
- mixed materials
DSpace
- Open Exeter
- developed support for Content Packages and a LOM mapping
- educational materials
- C-Change
- local DSpace repository was considered but rejected in favour of Jorum only approach (counter-use)
Note:
I’ll be blogging shortly about the other approaches taken for managing and sharing OERs, I’ll comment on the patterns at that point – but feel free to add any suggestions or comments about repositories here.
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