Repositories and Item Banks

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Repositories and Item Banks

• Charles Duncan
• C.Duncan_at_intrallect.com

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SIG Announcement

• explore the similarities in requirements and
  possible solutions between item banks and more
  traditional digital repositories
• treating item banks as repositories

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• Repositories

• Item Banks

What do they have in common? What are the
differences?
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What do they contain?

• Anything digital
• Assets
• Documents
• Images
• Video/audio
• Files
• Content packages
• IMS CP
• SCORM
• METS
• QTI
• Metadata
• LOM
• DC
• Extensions

• QTI items
• Items
• Sections
• Assessments
• Metadata
• LOM
• QTI Extensions
• Usage

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Why use them?

• Repositories
• Store
• Discover
• Preview
• Use/reuse
• Deliver
• Export
• Dynamic
• Aggregate
• Disaggregate

• Item Banks
• Store
• Discover
• Preview
• Use/reuse
• Deliver
• Export
• Dynamic
• Aggregate
• Disaggregate

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Non-standard?

• Repositories
• External
• Searchable
• Harvestable
• RSS
• Standards compliant
• Collections
• Rights management
• Statistics/reports

• Item banks
• Usage reports
• Standards compliant

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Related systems

• Repositories
• Library catalogues
• SRW/SRU
• Harvesters
• OAI-PMH
• VLEs
• IMS CP, SCORM
• Authoring tools
• IMS CP, SCORM

• Item banks
• Renderers
• QTI
• VLEs
• QTI, IMS CP
• Student record systems
• IMS Enterprise
• Authoring tools
• QTI

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Web Services
Authoring tools
Harvester
Library catalogue
Repository/ Item Bank
VLE
Student records
QTI renderer
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Discuss

• What would it take to make a repository into an
  item bank?
• Would it be easier to make an item bank from
  scratch?