2-3 October 2007, Aarhus, Denmark

For this workshop series members have prioritised:

• User feedback: evaluations, reviews, collaborative filtering, tagging/qualifying metadata
• Web 2.0 and repositories? (shared queries, social bookmarking, tagging…)
• Building your own content from repository resources (allowing teachers to combine content from different producers)
• Ensuring ease of use (usability, wizards, help and support)
• My repository - the need for personalization (profiles, reviews, collections…)

34 representatives from 20 members participated. The workshop was organised as a mix of Show and tell sessions, and Pattern presentation and question sessions. During the Show and tell sessions members and external experts demonstrated repositories and tools, and presented lessons learned and planned features.

Becta presented its Vocabulary Management Service. University of Ljubljana stressed the need for repository editors and gave possible solutions. UNI•C assures quality of metadata by screening teacher materials. utdanning.no uses Drupal.org as a framework for publishing and meta-tagging learning resources, and CNDP plans online content metadata generation.

EUN presented research findings on the Analysis of browse and search strategies of teachers, and Teachers’ multilingual tagging behaviour.

In the Pattern group sessions members discussed how to ensure ease of use, and learned about identifying repository design patterns, based on a number of concrete examples.