EDINA hands over Jorum

EDINA’s role in creating, implementing and supporting Jorum, the UK’s national repository for learning and teaching resources, will come to a successful conclusion on 31 July 2011 after nine years of joint development between EDINA and Mimas, resulting in a service which provides access to over 14,000 resources.

“I am very proud of the work that EDINA has done for Jorum and its users”, said Peter Burnhill, Co-Director of Jorum from its inception and Director of EDINA. “Our expertise in DSpace customisation, licensing and service delivery has enabled provision of a robust socio-technical infrastructure for Jorum and for academic content more generally.”

Jorum will be taken forward into service by Mimas from August 2011. Until August, EDINA will support JISC and Mimas to ensure the smooth transition of Jorum to operation at Mimas. In wishing the best for the success of Jorum in the future, staff at EDINA will make those project deliverables for which they were principally responsible available via the EDINA website for others to use. These include new features for the DSpace repository platform and a variety of legal and policy documents. All software outputs have already been made available under an open source licence through the EDINA Developer Corner and GitHub (a collaborative software code repository).

Rachel Bruce, Innovation Director at JISC, noted:

“EDINA and Mimas pioneered the Jorum service when it was one of the first of its kind. EDINA has successfully led the technical work in creating APIs and now in sharing the repository code to enable developers to work with the wealth of content in Jorum. As we move to service via Mimas, I must acknowledge the expertise and commitment from EDINA, without which the basis of this innovative service would not have been possible.”