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LIROLEM

LIROLEM (LIncoln on-line Repository of LEarning Materials) was a 12 month JISC-funded project that ran from April 2007. The Project aimed to lay the groundwork for the establishment of an Institutional Repository that supports a wide variety of non-textual materials, e.g. digital animations of 3-D models, architectural documentation such as technical briefings and photographs, as well as supporting text based materials. The project arose out of the coincidental demands for the University to develop a repository of its research outputs, and a specific project in the school of Architecture to develop a “Virtual Studio”, a web based teaching resource for the school of Architecture.

Now established, the Project continues to develop the repository as a tool to support the interconnectedness of the processes of research design and practical resolution and to make ideas, information and illustrations more widely accessible. While the initial project work started by working with the School of Architecture, in the longer term the University is committed to developing a set of repository services that will allow members of the academic community to develop content on a personal, departmental and institutional basis, and to manage that content so that it can not only be easily retrieved but made available to the wider HE community.