Concurrent Session: Making Resilient and Functional Repositories for Professional Learning
February 17
10:45-12:00
Studio 3
Susan Albertine and Pat Hutchings Albertine@aacu.org Hutchings@carnegiefoundation.org
Twitter contact: @margymaclibrary Margy MacMillan (Mount Royal University, Calgary)
Opening Question: What do you hope for in a repository? What purpose would it serve? What
value would it add?
Topics for discussion:
1) Intellectual property guidance documents for individual institutions. And for systems? A
concern for granting agencies. Who owns your intellectual work?
2) Norms for new types of materials and citations of these, including Creative Commons—
need to define how new types of scholarship “count” and how to cite.
3) National need for an indexing structure. Example is http://www.share-research.org/
ACRL, ACE, APLU, others—for research institutions. Finding aids for particular field of
research, such as genetics.
4) Centers of expertise: UNC Library School. Margy MacMillan (see contact above). CNICoalition for Networked Information. UW-Madison
5) The Digital Object Identifier system (DOI). Possible for institutions to apply for
membership in this system. Underpins Google Scholar, for example. A universal or
quasi-universal coding system that allows objects to be searched and found.
6) Rewards: if the institution won’t reward faculty for doing such scholarship, then
consider a YELP or Trip Advisor model. ALT-metrics a good idea. For instance, In Merlot,
individuals who do peer review of materials are given special recognition and status.
Process Ideas:
 Figure out if institution will accept teaching materials as additions to existing (typically
research) repositories.
 Figure out if people who want to make such materials available are already doing so,
e.g., in Merlot.
 Build networks that are searchable, indexed. DOI index, for example.
 Make a simpler version of Merlot with updated social media capacity
 Goal: build a robust index using metadata so that people can find things.
Advice from Librarians:
 The fewer repositories, the better
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But if you can’t limit that, then you need indexing so people can find stuff
Cool Ideas:
 Wikipedia edit-a-thons
 Hold a quilting bee for adding materials or building an index with tagging
 “Folksonomy” like taxonomy. People tag for terms they find useful.
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The UK has teaching impact frameworks. These are not without controversy, developed
by government. The associated assessment exercises inform how much funding an
institution gets: http://www.ref.ac.uk/ Material on teaching excellence framework
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/teaching-excellence-framework-tefeverything-you-need-to-know
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NOTES and RESOURCES:
ISSOTL: International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Open access journal.
Paid membership.
Good list of repositories here
http://libguides.usc.edu.au/content.php?pid=132242&sid=1735806
Guidelines for setting up an LOR - dated but some useful considerations
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/media/gcalwebv2/academy/content/cdlor/CDLOR_Structured_Guidelines_v1p0.pdf
Materials from a previous project
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/cd-lor/archive/
Recent book chapter - typology of learning repositories
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-74155-8_1#page-1
Massive and intriguing thesis about use of LORs
http://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1263&context=etd
Usage considerations
Personal Spaces in Public Repositories as a Facilitator for Open Educational Resource Usage
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2399/3460
Library organizations that might be useful
Coalition for Networked information - https://www.cni.org/
IMLS - does grants to states - https://www.imls.gov/
Example of index to research data repositories - lists repositories, not items within them (will
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ask a colleague if there are item-level search tools) http://www.re3data.org/
Canadian index sites:
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/en/scholarly-communications/portage-en.html ... More about it here
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/203/201/Compute-Canada-and-CARL-Join-Forces-to-Build-aNational-Research-Data-Platform.html
Conference in Utah, June 2016 - http://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/liw16
Interesting twitter history assignments/ideas
http://historyinthecity.blogspot.ca/2013/01/experiments-in-live-tweeting-as.html
http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/09/25/how-an-ex-history-student-is-using-twitter-tobring-world-war-2-to-life/#gref
https://twitter.com/realtimewwii
http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/d-daylive/desktop.html?utm_content=buffer973e7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com
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