White Papers

Here is a series of papers explaining some of the background, benefits, and organisational fit of Digital Object Repositories.

This document considers the nature of "resources" and the way they need to be stored and organised to make them easily usable.

This white paper explains the benefits an organisation can gain by using a digital object repository.

The purpose of a digital repository is not simply safe storage and delivery but sharing and reuse. See how that idea can be applied.

"Granularisation" is a clumsy word for an elegant concept. It refers to the size of learning objects. Granularisation is a necessary condition for learning objects to be shared and reused.

Identifiers are commonly used for several different purposes, such as differentiating; one learning object from another; one instance of a particular learning object from another; between two identical objects through their location for example. See how they can be applied

This paper examines the barriers to reuse and sharing of learning objects to identify what factors impede or encourage progress towards learning object economies.

The purpose of this paper is to enable organisations to be able to place a value on the management of their learning objects.