Newsline from EDINA
October 2004: Volume 9, Issue 3
by Moira Massey
The JORUM procurement process for the purchase, installation, development and support of an online repository system for learning and teaching materials has now been completed. The contract has been awarded to Intrallect (http://www.intrallect.com/) for their "intraLibrary Learning-Object Management System". The contract was awarded on 24th August 2004 following a European Union procurement process that began in February 2004. Eight vendors were short-listed to tender from seventeen that submitted pre-qualification questionnaires. JISC and the two national data centres were delighted to offer the contract to Intrallect, who tendered a very strong bid and were able to demonstrate a robust and flexible standards-based repository system.
The JORUM team is looking forward to working with Intrallect to launch the JORUM service for the whole of UK higher and further education from August 2005. The JORUM service will form a key part of the JISC Information Environment, and will be the basis of a major new initiative in online learning and teaching. The JORUM service technical infrastructure, support and outreach services will be fully supported by the two national data centres, EDINA at the University of Edinburgh and MIMAS at the University of Manchester.
The set-up and launch project that will lead JORUM into service from August 2005 has now commenced. Customisation of the system to meet the user community's requirements will commence shortly, after which the migration of existing JISC project output content, collated content from other sources and content from early adopters will be submitted to the system.