DLF Spring 2006
MIT's CWSpace
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Project Overview
• Vision: Increase value in Institute publication: OCW
–Also: Increase value in Open Source platform: DSpace
* CLE = Collaborative Learning Environment
• Goal: Archive OCW to MIT’s DSpace
–Also: Make content available to CLEs *
•CWSpace: MIT iCampus project, nearing completion
• Method: Interoperability of systems
–Use Content Packaging standard
–Use Web Services standard
MIT iCampus program: Microsoft Research alliance; $25M over 6 years; advanced educational technology enhancement projects

“Vision” embraces the role that this new material--OpenCourseWare--can play in the by now not new realm of the whole Open Access imbroglio regarding the scholarly record vs. the entertainment industries in terms of intellectual property rights and law, and how Universities need to do something to ensure they have a “place at the table” in bargaining in this arena.   Link to notes on the Hal Abelson talk on the Information Commons, guarding against encroachment of IP interests and economic forces (read: publishers greed), etc.
http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/index.php?p=2996

“Goal” is more straightforward (!), nearly self-explanatory.  All the Good Things come out of achieving this goal.
(Well, at least the plumbing/mechanism is set up to permit people to now Do the Good Things with these kinds of tools.)

“Method” merely expresses the still very high level thinking about principles to employ in achieving the goal


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So, what drove that Vision? … TURN …  (need for InterOp)