4-5 December 2007, Brussels, Belgium
For this workshop series members have prioritised:
- Quality assurance strategies (editorial policies, technical quality assurance)
- Connecting and cooperating with existing repositories
- What are the additional benefits of repositories in a Google world
- Identifying successful policy actions (government support, public-private partnerships)
- Metadata only or content repository? Pros and cons of hosting content
- Sustainability of a repository in the long term
- Barriers to cooperation and interoperability = Language?
37 representatives of 22 members participated. At the workshop the EUN, Kennisnet and University of Ljubljana presented experiences on the theme Connecting and cooperating with existing repositories.
Under the heading Identifying successful policy actions, utdanning.no described the Norwegian governmental service oriented repository strategy, and sDAE linked policy and business models.
Lisa Petrides, OER Commons, was invited as an external expert to tell about OER Commons projects.
The group sessions had two headlines: Quality assurance and Repositories in a Google world. In the first sessions members discussed quality control strategies to ensure high quality content in repositories (partly based on the questionnaire provided by the Quality For Reuse project – www.q4r.org).
In the second round members discussed the present and future role of Google in education and (national) repositories in a world with Google’s many features and dominance.
