Posted on behalf of Justin Haylock, senior innovation developer.
Just over a month ago I wrote to tell you about the upcoming “Store” that my team and I have had the pleasure of developing. I outlined the way in which the Store will allow for better discovery, the ability to rate and review resources and engage with the owners of the resources and the resources themselves to repurpose them for your own needs (where licensing allows).
I’m now happy to be able to share the first release of the Store with you and invite you to explore its current content (migrated from Jorum) and test and review its functionality. This preview release is the first part of a staged development process, for details of our plans for additional functionality (including deposit) please see the previous post. Currently the Store holds a wide selection of high quality content from Jorum. When you click on a resource you’ll have a brief description and an image of the resource to give you a better sense of what it is before you download it. To access, rate or review a resource you’ll need to be logged in, which you can do through your institutional login or by registering on the website.
This preview release is the first part of a staged development process, for details of our plans for additional functionality (including deposit) please see the previous post.
Now it’s over to you. We would welcome your feedback on all aspects of the Store in order for us to improve as we go along. Remember this is only the first release and with your help we’re hoping to go from strength to strength in building the highest quality platform of tools and services for the UK, and indeed the world, to enable the effective discovery and delivery of learning materials and resources.
To give us your feedback use the rate and review features just like you would any app in a Store and our resource curation application will allow you to raise issues and make requests in the same way open source software works. You can rate and review any of the migrated Jorum content but we really want your views on the Store itself. To make this easier we’ve actually put the Store inside the Store and opened it for curation! Just click on the link to the app and resource Store and then rate and review it as you would any other resources https://Store.data.alpha.jisc.ac.uk/#/resource/8215
We’ll be regularly reviewing any comments left and acting on them to continuously improve the Store and fix any problems so please share any thoughts no matter how big or small. And if you have any ideas for resources you’d like to see or additional functions that you think would be useful please share those as well. We look forward to working with you to make this the best service we can provide.
