Sharing Objects Under Repository Control with Everyone (SOURCE)
This project is directed at the ‘provision’ level of the JISC Information
Environment Architecture.
Specifically, it is the containers that ‘providers’ are using to manage
digital objects that this project hopes to provide further interoperable
tools and innovations. For that reason, the core aim of this project is
to enable bulk-migration and deposit of learning objects in significant UK
HE platforms across the JISC provider IE architecture.
The creation of bulk-migration tools will further enable a competitive
vendor environment where digital objects will be able to be moved between
containers in an open and standardized form; thereby empowering the HE
institution to select and try out vendor architectures without having to
worry about their digital content being 'locked-in' to a
proprietary system.
Beyond the basic technological deliverable of this project (bulk-migration
tools) are the overall pedagogical innovations of this project; which reach
beyond a set of interoperable tools and towards overall developments in
reuse of teaching/learning content; especially rich multimedia content
assets.
Lead institution
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Birkbeck College as part of the Bloomsbury Colleges Consortium (School
of Oriental and African Studies, the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine, the Royal Veterinary College and the Institute of
Education and Birkbeck College)
Project partners