Start date: 1 May 2007
End date: 30 September 2008
Funding programme: Repositories and Preservation programme
Project website:
http://legolas.cetis.ac.uk/
JISC theme(s): Information environment
Committees: JISC Integrated Information Environment committee
We will develop a highly-usable desktop tool that aims to support a
synthesis of user-created and curated content within a simple
workflow. This will be consistent with general information management
practices emerging as a result of the popularity of the RSS and Atom
metadata aggregation formats.
The tool will have many of the features of an RSS aggregator and blog post
editor but combined also with the capability to make extensive use of the
information environment, including using the Information Environment
Service Registry (IESR) for discovering and adding new sources, ePrints
servers and institutional repositories via OAI-PMH, and access to learning
object repositories such as Jorum via SRU search.