Jorum Publications
This section is updated with publications, promotional materials and reports produced by the Jorum team. It also includes evaluation reports carried out on Jorum work.
Articles
- JISC Inform Summer 2005, Paul Davey, JISC. 'Give and take with Jorum' [PDF (216KB)]
Promotional materials
- Jorum Leaflet: [PDF 419KB]
- Contributing to Jorum: [PDF 66KB]
- A Jorum Overview: [PDF 48KB]
- Jorum Noticeboard Poster: [PDF 1MB]
R&D reports
The reports in this section are outputs from work undertaken on Jorum Research and Development (R&D) activities.
To the best of our knowledge the information, links and facts contained in these reports are correct at the time of writing, and are offered in good faith. Following publication of reports, legitimate feedback will be recorded, and corrections made, within documents where necessary.
Reports will continue to be produced under Jorum's current R&D activities.
Jorum R&D reports currently available
- Jorum Open Education Resources (OER) Report (August 2007:[PDF 257KB] - Signed off by JISC December 2008
- Jorum Workflow Report (August 2006): [PDF 1.1MB] - Signed off by JISC September 2007
The purpose of this report is to provide a review of the Jorum Workflow model used to publish resources to the Jorum repository. - Automated Metadata Report (July 2006): [PDF 1.5MB] - Feedback/comments added 02/08/06
This report presents a review of existing and potential metadata automation within Jorum and an overview of other automation systems. - Preservation Watch Report (July 2006): [PDF 451KB]
This is the second Preservation Watch report, providing a summary of some of the key initiatives that are currently taking place within digital preservation. It also focuses on issues that need to be addressed before a decision is made about implementing a preservation process for learning objects within Jorum. - Digital Rights Management Watch (March 2006): [PDF 95KB]
This is an update of the review of digital-rights management requirements and issues for Jorum that was published as part of the Jorum scoping and technical appraisal. - Repository Systems Watch (January 2006): [PDF 3.9MB]
This report considers developments in international e-learning repository initiatives and commercial systems that support these. - Technical Frameworks and Infastructures (January 2006): [PDF 218KB]
The aim of this report is to provide a survey of developments in the technical sphere. This report represents an assessment of current thinking in technical architectures -and specifically the extent to which the JISC e-learning programme in general, and Jorum in particular, might be affected. - Open Source Learning Object Repository Systems (November 2005): [PDF 2.6MB]
This report tracks developments and issues regarding the use of Open Source Software/Free Software in relation to Learning Object Repositories such as Jorum. - Digital Preservation Report (November 2005): [PDF 507KB]
This report provides a summary of current issues relating to digital preservation, and gives a starting point for a long term Jorum strategy.
Previous Jorum Reports: Previous Jorum reports are available at the old Jorum website.
