JORUM Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Interface

Adrian Stevenson

What does JORUM mean?

• JISC Online Repository for Learning and Teaching Materials– Noun: 1. A large drinking bowl. 2. The amount that such a

bowl contains

• Currently research project, started October 2002

• Paving the way for service to all FE and HE institutions from August 2005

• EU Procurement process for repository software now completed and contract awarded to Intrallect

JISC’s Exchange for Learning Programme

• X4L is exploring the re-use and re-purposing of existing content, not just from JISC, but also other sources such as NLN, and NGfL

• 22 L&T content-producing projects from FE and HE

• 3 infrastructure projects, JORUM, Reload and TOIA

• X4L at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_x4l

• JORUM at: http://www.jorum.ac.uk

OAI

• Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)

• JORUM OAI interface at:http://bodach.ucs.ed.ac.uk:8040/intralibrary/IntraLibrary-OAI

• Requirement of the JISC Information Environment

• JORUM is harvestable but doesn’t do any harvesting

Connect

• ‘Connect’ Learning & Teaching Portal – http://www.connect.ac.uk

• Connect is a HE Academy project (used to be the LTSN – Learning and Teaching Support Network)

• Connect OAI interfaces:– http://www.ltsn.ac.uk/genericcentre/interop/OAI_sources.asp

• Records harvested by server at Rutherford Appleton Labs

• LTSN English OAI interface:– http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/repository/oai2_lom/

• HE Academy resources deposited in JORUM and harvested back into the Connect portal