Sharing OERs via Jorum

Siobhán Burke and Sarah Currier12th December 2012

Benefits of Using Jorum

Sharing Resources• Manual: Uploading & Links

• Bulk Upload Methods

The Resources• Format types

• Metadata

• Licences

Coming Jorum Enhancements• Search & Browse Features

• Usage Data & Statistics

Q & A

This session will cover

Jorum is• a trusted source of quality OER for UK HE and FE

• a robust, safe and sustainable hosting platform for OER

• a showcase for UK learning and teaching resources

Jorum can• provide security – a national repository service

• make resources more discoverable

• provide data about usage

• reduce costs

Using Jorum• enriches the community

• is easy!

“Jorum can save us time. Using materials

from Jorum means that we do not have to

start from scratch and create resources

ourselves. There is a wide variety of

content so you never know what you

might find.” -- Carolyn Groom, Learning

Technologist, Integrated Learner Support

Services, Carnegie College.

Benefits of using Jorum

Two main ways to share:

• Manual – uploading files & adding links.Both types are tagged and searched the same way!

• Bulk Upload Methods – what we offer now, and

what’s coming.

Sharing Resources

Sharing Resources - Manual

Manual – Uploading Files & Adding Links• You can upload your files and packages into Jorum,

including:• Individual files of all types;• Zip files containing any number of files;• Standard packages with metadata (SCORM and IMS), OR

• You can put links to externally hosted content in Jorum• You can add metadata and licences during upload

Sharing Resources – Bulk Upload Methods

Bulk Upload Methods – we currently offer:• Spreadsheet / CSV template

• We give you the template, you add the metadata and links, and give it back to us to ingest.

• There is a way to ingest packages in bulk this way too.

• RSS Feed• We have offered ingest of static RSS Feeds in the past- they

don’t support great discoverability within Jorum as each feed is treated as a single resource.

• We are no longer supporting this for ingest from next year.

Bulk Upload Methods – what’s coming next year:• SWORD ingest

• Standard protocol for ingesting files and packages along with their metadata.

• There will be tools developed for use with this protocol.• Accepts IMS and SCORM Packages, zip files, any other filetypes,

plus we hope to support METS packages later.

• OAI-PMH• Standard protocol for ingesting metadata and links from other

repositories.• We’re testing this now – let us know if you offer a feed.

Sharing Resources – Bulk Upload Methods

Resource Metadata

Metadata – what is it good for?• Discovery:

• You want people to find your resources.• You want to be able to find your resources again yourself!

• Measuring success• Jorum will soon offer easy-to-generate, easy-to-view and easy-

to-share stats about usage of resources.• To get access stats in meaningful ways, you need to be able to

gather them in meaningful ways, e.g.:• Stats on downloads of all resources in your JISC Programme? You need

them all tagged with, e.g. “ukoer”• Data on the geographical origin of views of your institution’s resources?

You need them all tagged with your institution’s name.

Sharing OERs: Adding files or web links

Click on ‘Deposits’

Sharing OERs: Adding files or web links

Click on ‘start a new deposit’

Sharing OERs: Adding files or web links

Choose a subject

Sharing OERs: Adding files or web links

Choose to deposit a File or Web link

Sharing OERs: Adding files or web links

Enter either the file or web address &

click Next

Sharing OERs: Adding metadata

Insert a title here; this will appear in the search results

Sharing OERs: Adding metadata

Insert an abstract explaining who the intended audience is

Sharing OERs: Adding metadata

Add individual authors as well as institution name

Add individual keywords

Add a unique project tag

Sharing OERs: Add a Licence

Check which licence you need

Sharing OERs: Add a Licence

Check which licence you need A pop up window appears with the licence details

Sharing OERs: Terms of Service & Complete Deposit

Tick the box to indicate that you have read and agree to the Terms of Service

Click on ‘Complete Deposit’ to finish

Sharing OERs: View your resource

Go to your Resource page

Sharing OERs: View your resource

Go to your Resource page

Coming Jorum enhancements

• New search & browse features• New publisher field included• Multiple faceted search

• Usage data and statistics• Customisable reports based on downloads, uploads and more• Dynamic usage reports based on any search term• Instant visual representation with various options: bar chart, line

graph, etc.• Export options include csv, json & xml

New Look Interface

Get ongoing support:

• http://

www.jorum.ac.uk/Support

• support@jorum.ac.uk

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Any questions?