DLF Spring 2006
MIT's CWSpace
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OCW Materials in DSpace =
New Ground
Digital Archive
Educational Materials
BACK-END / FRONT-END - Need for networked access
Web Services
New needs for system-to-system access: CLEs, Image Tools
COMPLEXITY - Need to package multi-file content, plus metadata
Content Packaging
New kind of structure, composition: website, compound digital object, rich metadata
GRANULARITY - Challenge to digital archive; how flexible can it be? (cf. CMS)
New emphasis (ideally) on re-use, re-purposing: aggregation, disaggregation
POLICY - Cost/merit evaluation of archival treatment. Preservation and IP considerations
New kind of content: educational, teaching, learning
Our project responds to these four areas like so:

The first two = no response, as such.
The latter two = the heart of our presentation: CP and WS.

1.It’s a given, for us, that the OCW content merits archiving.
It remains a discussion re: content direct from CLEs (unfiltered through OCW)

2. For our project the bar is not terribly high re: disaggregation & similar of OCW courses.  They don’t lend themselves to it, and the repository doesn’t (yet?) lend itself to dealing with a lot of flexibility in this vein.   Leaving this “As-Is” for the moment.  Future work.

3. Content Packaging, and in particular an Application Profile to content packaging, is central to our work.  As for the choice of _which_ content packaging standard, details later.

4. Web Services are called for, and we chose a particular technical approach to this that maps well to a digital archive.  Details later.

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