Repository DeveloperThe Headingley Library, James Graham BuildingLeeds Metropolitan University, Beckett ParkLeeds, LS6 3QS

Email: n.e.sheppard@leedsmet.ac.uk

Main blog: http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/

Other blogs: http://acerep.wordpress.com/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrnick

Nick Sheppard

The Leeds Met Repository

• Getting stuff in• Via intraLibrary interface• SWORD drag & drop• Web-interface (in development)

• Getting stuff out• Open Search interface• PowerLink for X-stream • Building Block in development for Blackboard v9.1

Getting stuff in• Unicycle project (completed April 2010)

• http://unicycle-leedsmet.ning.com/• Designated administrators (mediated deposit)• UKOER metadata guidelines

• Institution-wide access to intraLibrary – integrate with LDAP?

• Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD)• Desktop drag & drop client (prototype)• Web client (in development for ACErep project)

• Deposit from VLE?• Require development / resources

http://repository-intralibrary.leedsmet.ac.uk/login.jsp

SWORD drag & drop

• Developed at Keele University• Allow staff to easily deposit as element of OER

workflow?• http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/inn/repository/video

/SWORD_drop_from_desktop/• No metadata

• Can deposit Content Package including metadata• Streamline - Automatic Metadata generation

ALPS CETL Repository Project (ACErep - http://acerep.wordpress.com/)

• Partners:• University of Leeds• York St John• Leeds Metropolitan

• Deposit into one or more of repositories maintained by CETL partnership• Use-cases / specification• Prototype by end of the year

• Search across multiple repositories• May not be achievable in time-scale

Getting stuff out

• Log-in to intraLibrary• Requires account – not open• LDAP

• Leeds Met Repository Open Search• Web-based interface• Search & Retrieve by URL (SRU)

• X-stream PowerLink (Building Block in development for v9.1)

• Feed aggregation• RSS• OAI-PMH

Ongoing development• Browse by author / date• Number of resources in browse tree• Package preview for OER• RSS• Comments / tags / star-rating?

• All supported by intraLibrary• Cannot be added from the Open Search interface

Some RSS headaches• URL exposed by IL feed points to system generated

public URL • We require it to point to Open Search metadata

page• Used Yahoo Pipes to redirect• Build RSS from SRU query instead?

X-stream PowerLink• Simple search box• Add resource to module directly from repository• Building Block for Blackboard v9.1 in development

• Similar functionality• Extend to include advanced search / browse?

• https://x-stream.leedsmet.ac.uk/

Jorum Open• http://www.jorum.ac.uk/• National OER repository• All UKOER projects deposited it Jorum Open• Link or file?• Unicycle – bulk upload of IMS content

packages• Jorum harvest regular zip file from Open

Search• Many of our records link only• Implications for preservation