http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/000766.html

http://door.sourceforge.net/

OK, I know NOTHING about this, so don't even ask, but it seemed like something of interest (if you are still flailing away at that LOR hobgoblin) - an open source Learning Object Repository written in PHP and using MySQL as the backend which supports both the IMS metadata and content package specifications. Looks exactly as uninspiring as every other LOM-based, forms driven LOR, but if that's what you want, well then at least it's open source, right? Can you tell I'm having a LORrible day? (grimace) - SWL

http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/000767.html

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_4/sale/

"This short paper analyses their content and shows that a requirement to deposit research output into a repository coupled with effective author support policies works in Australia and delivers high levels of content. Voluntary deposit policies do not, regardless of any author support by the university."

Kind of says it all. Or does it? A lot of people interpret the lessons of Web 2.0 to be "only services which allow people to do what they already want to do (and don't make them do stuff they don't want to do) will be successful." This seems fine to a point, but isn't it possible that sometimes there do need to be behaviour changes? Or is it that any solution that requires coercion to get behaviour changes hasn't found the right value proposition for its users? - SWL

http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/000768.html

My ISP's email server has been done for 27 hours and counting. I work from my home office... On my own... My email going down is traumatic and almost like not being at work at all, except I'm here and have mounting stuff to do and people to talk to. Breath....

If you need to contact me anytime soon, either try sleslie@edtechpost.ca, skype me at sleslie or (gasp) phone me at 250-383-2456. Hopefully this will resolve soon, or else it's time to change service providers (and email addresses, groan!) - SWL

http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/000772.html

http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/repomman/index.html

To keep going on the apparent 'open source repository' theme today, this JISC-funded project appears to be using Fedora and Sakai to investigate automated population of metadata based on contextual information provided by the portal environment, to examine the boundaries of personal versus institutional digital resource management, and to develop some workflow aroud common repository tasks based around Service Oriented Architecture. Phew. Fedora is a different approach than DSpace, though both originated from the library/institutional repository world, and yet in my earlier investigations it too seemed to also have some limitations to its effectiveness as a LOR. Early days yet for this project, but maybe some promise in moving it closer to serve those (and other) needs better. And you just gotta love the name. - SWL