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What’s big in ICT?

18 March, 2008 – 8:03 am

education.au has been doing some work with the Cunningham Library at ACER - the library manages ATED (Australian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors). education.au has used ATED for some years as one of the thesauri it uses to catalogue content for the edna resource database. No thesaurus covers every eventuality, so we use a number to […]

By Jen | Also posted in Educationau, standards, metadata, thesauri | Comments (1)

Technology Bulletin issue 2 available

13 September, 2007 – 9:54 am

The Technology Bulletin summarises some of the interesting work education.au is undertaking in developing the Carrick Exchange for the Carrick Institute. Issue 2 provides some background to the development of the custom bookmarking module, using Drupal themes, the selection of Camtasia for the Exchange tour, information about the Metadata Investigation, the Rights Management Investigation, and […]

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Evaluating digital repository products - the job’s done

17 October, 2006 – 7:45 pm

The New Zealand Open Access Repositories in New Zealand project has commissioned an evaluation of open source digital repositories. The report, Technical Evaluation of Selected Open Source Repository Solutions, evaluated DSpace, Fedora, and EPrints. It also briefly discusses why some products weren’t fully evaluated. These were ARNO, CDSWare and i-TOR.
The evaluation criteria may not necessarily […]

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