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Institutional repositories as a support for e- learning tools and other web applications in academic institutions

Academic institutions produce large amount of copyrighted documents such as theses, scientific papers, etc and recently also videoconferencing records and Learning Management Objects (LMOs). Repositories offer a number of advantages for storing those materials, such as: - more effective way of preservation of stored digital records such as datastream. Compared to classical file system, datastream, as some MIME-typed stream of content, encapsulates bytestream content and practically enables us to define a document format after it was stored. This, in return, makes a record open to future formats. - authentication and authority control over stored records can ensure copyright control of the material shared within institution network. The idea is to make repository root storage for all sorts of information within one institution. Every record is stored only once but different number of upper layer applications can use it. Department of Information Sciences at Faculty of Philosophy Osijek in collaboration with the Department of Library Science at the University of Zadar has started an ongoing project whose goal is to base its information infrastructure on the repository as a root element of the architecture. With the repository at the bottom of the architecture there should also be a content management system (CMS) at the top as user interface for building not only web site for general users but also as an interface to the repository. In between those two layers different applications can be implemented such as e-learning software or digital library software. In later of development stages the plan is to interconnect the two institutions with a distributed repository system. Different digital repository systems are available as commercial or open source versions. In our project two of them are highlighted: FEDORA (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository), repository developed jointly at Virginia and Cornell Universities, and Dspace developed at MIT, and also used at the University of Parma, Italy, collaborative partner of Osijek and Zadar departments.

institutional repositories ; digital records ; digital preservation ; copyright ; e-learning tools

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