This area contains documents published by the Jorum team relating to their ongoing Repository development.
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02.12.09 This new paper from the Jorum team outlines: the issues surrounding syndicated feed deposit into institutional repositories.

" Repositories offer various ways of depositing resources. This paper examines the issues surrounding the potential offered by a syndicating feed standard such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and the ATOM protocol. The distinction is made between notification of metadata, for the purpose of registration and supply of metadata (to support search and subsequent onward linking to the object described being hosted elsewhere) and deposit of the object with metadata (to support its release for others to use). "

Issues surrounding syndicated feed into institutional repositories - V1.0 Nov 09

The Repositories Support Project (RSP) is a major JISC initiative to support the development and growth of the UK repositories network. They provide support and guidance in the set up and running of all major repositories software. They also host training events and if you're a little lost their website is a great first step in the right direction.

Intralibrary is the repository available from Intrallect.

What is intraLibrary?

intraLibrary is Intrallect's Digital Object Repository. It is a strategic technology that underpins a mixed learning environment, improving the management of all learning assets leading to better quality teaching materials.

• intraLibrary enables educators and trainers to manage, share and re-use digital resources.
• it is a solution for building an organisation-wide Digital Object Repository.
• it is enterprise software with an intuitive, easy to use web-interface.
• it enables any institution, project or subject group, in compulsory education, post-compulsory education and professional training to create a repository of digital resources. No programming is required.
• intraLibrary manages digital rights
• intraLibrary can manage collections of learning objects on behalf of groups, without requiring a separate digital library

Here is a list of institutions who currently use Intralibrary (click here)

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join.

EPrints is the most flexible platform for building high quality, high value repositories, recognised as the easiest and fastest way to set up repositories of research literature, scientific data, student theses, project reports, multimedia artefacts, teaching materials, scholarly collections, digitised records, exhibitions and performances.

DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories. It is free and easy to install "out of the box" and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization.

DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets. And with an ever-growing community of developers, committed to continuously expanding and improving the software, each DSpace installation benefits from the next.

MrCute is intended to be an optional add-on to the Moodle Virtual Learning Environment. More specifically, it extends the functionality of the IMS Repository system originally developed by Alton College, UK.