This report clearly shows that the development and take up in the use of repositories for the 

education sector is steadily increasing, including in the area of e learning. The implementation 

of commercial and non commercial systems to fulfill the broad range of roles for repositories 

is very apparent. Also evident is the vast range of system functionality and service models 

available, reflecting the wide range of requirements that need to be met. 

It is clear that these wide scale developments will offer an insight into alternative service 

models, additional service components/activities that could be offered by JORUM in additional 

to specific system functionality that the JORUM community could benefit from. The following 

are a list of recommendations based on the work undertaken, that concludes this report. 

Summary of Recommendations 

1.  Continue to provide minimal watch activities on emerging and developing repository 

services in the educational sector, both commercial and non commercial throughout 

the world. 

2.  On the basis of the watch activity, identify for the JORUM team discussion aspects of 

other service models that the JORUM team may wish to recommend for 

implementation. 

3.  On the basis of the watch activity, identify for JORUM team discussion system 

requirements and specific functionality that JORUM team may wish to recommend for 

implementation. 

4.  Identify from the watch activity open source solutions and developments that the 

JORUM team may also wish to recommend for investigation/implementation. 

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