Again - a good question. I think that the ‘internet as repository’ helps us to think about a shift in emphasis from tools (technology) to educating educators (pedagogy) about what is important when deciding where to store and share OER. Perhaps its useful to think about the criteria educators should consider when deciding on spaces to put stuff, for example:
- Open standards
- Open file formats
- Free and open source (to mitigate against vendor lock-in, and encourage others to adopt, adapt, and make available, i.e. resilient decentralised nodes, on same terms, with same FOSS tech)
- Search functionality including search by license type etc.
- Discoverability (indexable by external search engines; semantic construction for better parse-ability; clear, thoughtful ontological hierarchy and tagging; clean, readable URIs to allow for easy referencing and sharing of links; open licensing to allow referencing and reuse)
- Versioning and forkability!
- Attribution builders
- others? (PS - made this a wiki post so others can add to the list
- Digital skills development - invest in digital literacy skills, particularly copyright literacy, for staff and students so they understand how to create and curate open content ~ Lorna
- api’s (Clint)
- A highly configurable and customizable UI (and hiring a UI/UX expert to conduct user testing) Pay attention to what your human users need (which is a UI that works for them) and what the machines (Google, OERSI, etc) need (aka education resource specific metadata like LRMI) (Clint)