Creating and Managing Digital Resources
About this guide
This guide is intended for people involved in planning, developing or managing online resource collections. It describes sources of information for storing, retrieving and maintaining learning objects and other research assets such as images, text, sound and video. It includes links to information about how to create and manage digital collections and points to some best practice models. Your feedback and suggestions are welcome!
- Metadata
- Indexing
- Initiatives: University of Sydney
- Initiatives: National and International
- Copyright, IP and Digital Rights Management
- Infrastructure and Guidelines
- eLearning Communities and Environments
- Learning objects
- Language, search engines and software
Overview
Towards a Unified e-Learning Strategy
Consultation document published by the UK Department for Education and Skills comprehensively discusses the need for strategic planning to ensure quality in delivering e-learning.
Pathfinder Research on Web-Based Repositories
was published in January 2004 by PALS (Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions) and written by Mark Ware. PALS is a collaborative group involving UK publishers and higher/further education in the UK. This paper provides a clear overview of existing institutional repositories, issues to overcome, uses, management, requirements and issues concerning publishers. Follow the link with this title.