Digital repositories: Helping Universities and Colleges
Repositories are important for universities and colleges in helping to manage and capture institutional assets as a part of their information strategy. A digital repository can hold a wide range of materials for a variety of purposes and users. It can support learning, research and administrative processes.
Higher Education sector
Higher education institutions have to manage their educational, research and associated assets more effectively and transparently than in the past. Ongoing activities at EU level (such as the Bologna Process, the European Research Area) and at national level (such as the Research Assessment Exercise, the Transparency Review, and the DfES e-Strategy) will give tangible benefits to those institutions that can demonstrate and exploit effective information strategies and systems.
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Further Education sector
Colleagues in the further education sector are using repositories to share and re-use learning and teaching materials. In time, the sharing of materials in this way will benefit learners and tutors around the UK. For example, the DfES e-Strategy envisages that practitioners will ‘create, adapt, re-use and share resources through common access to digital resources for e-learning’. However, repository solutions are most viable and sustainable when they are built on open standards.
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