John’s JISC CETIS blog

Following on from part 1 which reviewed Jorum’s requirements for RSS-based deposit, this section synthesises the comments and feedback emerging in response to it.
Community views
In response to the requirements and position papers a number of feeds where submitted for testing and there has been some thoughtful reflection on the issues in the blogs and by [...]

Over the past few months CETIS and Jorum have been discussing approaches to bulk deposit to support the projects in the UKOER programme as they deposit or represent their OERs in Jorum. Based on feedback from projects gathered through our technical reviews of projects, we’ve investigated approaches which might work for the programme.
One option we [...]

The morning sessions a the recent JISCRI deposit tools show and tell meeting in London (DepoST) offered a whirlwind of elevator pitches for the many existing repository deposit tools. Details of the tools from the pitches have been neatly captured by David Flanders on the JISCinvolve blog.

http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/03/part-1-of-2-report-on-depost-deposit-tool-show-tell-meeting-2009-12-10/
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/11/03/part-2-of-2-evaluation-of-the-deposit-tool-show-and-tell-features-and-flows-of-deposit/

In the midst of the afternoon sessions there where [...]

A few quick items of interest form the web this week. Two offer a perspective of the process of making standards (looking at OAI-PMH); another is an interview with Brian Lamb reviewing the history of Learning Object Repositories.
Talking to DC [Washington] (Adam Bosworth, Adam Bosworth’s Weblog)
In a post based on his experiences with standards development, [...]

Held at Georgie Tech, Open Repositories 2009 hosted 326 delegates form 23 countries. The conference ran smoothly and managed to provide robust wifi for anyone who wanted it. The conference dinner was held at the Georgia Aquarium; the aquarium was inspiring (though the theme music was a bit much after a while) and the dinner [...]

RRT are attending Open Repositories 2009 in Atlanta.
Our poster highlights nine recent ready-to-use outputs from JISC’s repositories and preservation work that the conference might not otherwise have heard about.

Over the past couple of months I’ve had a chance to hear updates from a number of repository software developers (at a Fedora training day, at DEV8D and on a number of blogs). Albeit slightly delayed by holidays, here’s a bit of a snapshot of where ePrints, DSpace, Fedora, Microsoft’s repository are at. There’s a [...]

There have been two reports relating to metadata released recently that I’ve been meaning to read and blog about: OCLC’s What We’ve Learned from the RLG Partners Metadata Creation Workflows Survey and DLF’s Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators. However, I’m not going to get a chance to do more than skim these [...]

#dev8D
Developer happiness days http://www.dev8d.org/ was a week long JISC-sponsored event organised by David Flanders and Andy McGregor. It set out to bring “together the cream of the crop of educational software developers along with coders from other sectors, users, and technological tinkerers in an exciting new forum.” The event was a  success and its [...]

[this is a copy of my post on the Repository Research Team blog http://jiscrrt.wordpress.com/]
In issue 57 of Ariadne, Phil, Mahendra, and myself have an article introducing some of our work on ecological models of repository and service interaction. “A Bug’s Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions”
In our introduction [...]