OUTPUT – FAROES – Final Report

Output Name: Output – FAROES – Final Report

Title: FAROES – Final Report
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Date Released: n/a possibly after March 2009

URI for Output: n/a

Summary of contents:

Not available as yet

OUTPUT – FAROES – Blog

Output Name: Output – FAROES- Blog

Title: FAROES Blog
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Date Released: First Entry – Thursday, November 8th, 2007

URI for Output: http://blog.lsl.ecs.soton.ac.uk/faroes

Summary of contents:

Blog for project activity. Has entries up to July 2008.

OUTPUT – FAROES – Bootstrap activities to support the community in identifying, uploading and describing owned learning assets

Output Name: Output – FAROES – Bootstrap activities to support the community in identifying, uploading and describing their learning assets

Title: Provide a number of bootstrap activities to support the community in identifying, uploading and describing their learning assets

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OUTPUT – FAROES – Plug-ins for ePrints to enable Web 2.0 functions such as tagging and virtual structures

Output Name: Output – FAROES – Plug-ins for ePrints to enable Web 2.0 functions such as tagging and virtual structures

Title: FAROES – Plug-ins for ePrints to enable Web 2.0 functions such as tagging and virtual structures
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Summary of contents:

Develop a number of official plug-ins for ePrints in consultation with the community, in order to support more personal resource sharing by enabling Web 2.0 functions such as tagging, virtual structures and recommendations.

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OUTPUT – FAROES – Lightweight Repository for sharing assets

Output Name: Output – FAROES – Lightweight Repository for sharing assets

Title:  Lightweight Repository for sharing assets
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Summary of contents:

Deploy a lightweight repository early in the project lifetime and engage directly with the community throughout the project to encourage the sharing of assets, and to explore issues that until now have been rather abstract, such as policies of social ownership and provenance, and notions of trust and authority.

Output – FAROES – Project Website

Output Name: Output – FAROES – Project Website

Title: Project Website
Number of pages or page numbers: n/a

Date Released: September 2007

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Summary of contents:http://www.faroes.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php

Additional information: Website contains useful information about the project

Project – Repositories for Sharing Learning Resources in Distributed Social Spaces

Repositories for Sharing Learning Resources in Distributed Social Spaces

Short Project Name: FAROES

Programme Name: Repositories and Preservation Programme

Strand: Repositories start-up and enhancement projects

JISC Project URI: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres/repositories_sue/faroes.aspx

Project URI: http://www.faroes.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php

Start Date: 2007-10-01

End Date: 2009-03-31

Governance: Repositories and preservation advisory group

Contact Name and Role: Dr David Millard (Project Director), Dr Yvonne Howard and Gurdish Sandhu, Project Managers

Brief project description: The Faroes project will establish a lightweight repository for language learners and teachers to share their resources, based on the CLARE repository (a version of ePrints).

Name of Trawler: Mahendra Mahey