Aims and Objectives
Repository Infrastructure and Processes
The success of the JISC supported Institutional Repository (IRep) has enabled Nottingham Trent University to develop repository services to include a range of objects associated with learning and teaching. The repository enhancement project will undertake to do the following:
- further develop the institutional repository and embed its use and content population into the life and work of academics at NTU;
- collaborate with Desire2Learn to work on the integration of the Learning Object Repository (LOR) with IREP and external repositories e.g. Jorum;
- define metadata mapping and metadata application profiles for the description of different types of content;
- develop policies for the sharing and licensing of content within the LOR, the IRep and National Repositories such as JORUM.
Fostering change in academic learning and teaching practice
As well as providing a repository infrastructure and processes, the project has a significant goal of encouraging change in learning and teaching practice aiming to:
- promote and enhance content creation, facilitate learning and teaching resource sharing and management;
- maximise the effective use of learning and teaching resources currently locked up in personal storage devices, module locations on the VLE, and less reliable media;
- improve capability of re-use and re-purposing of Learning and Teaching resources;
- Achieve a measurable increase in deposit rate to the LOR and IREP;
- share outcomes of work undertaken to develop the interface between IRep, the VLE LOR and external repositories e.g. JORUM.
The institutional approach adopted is aligned to the e-Framework ADDI methodology that directly addresses the importance of organisational perspectives, cultural issues, sharing and reusability, interoperability and accessibility and retention when considering policy, processes and guidelines for the management of LOs and LORs.
